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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Piece Work. In Savannah, J. H. Allen, convicted of stabbing William C. Henson| was fined $1 for each of the 300 stitches taken in Henson's wounds. In Philadelphia, Dennis Callahan pleaded guilty to assault & battery, was given one month in jail for each of the 26 stitches taken in his victim...
Doggedly, next day they went sightseeing. That night they trooped into the Shoreham for the reception given by Senator Howard J. McGrath. They had one more whoop left; that was for the President when he marched...
Many of Mikofalva's peasants were bewildered. Janos Kelemen, the local president of the Communist-run Peasant Party, to whom Hungary's postwar land reform had given two holds (2.84 acres) in addition to the three he had owned before, said humbly: "I am a stupid peasant. How should I know whether Mindszenty is guilty or not? They tell me in one paper one way, and then comes my friend and tells me these are just lies...
...mood. He told them that they must form a really effective and representative government; otherwise, he would install Greece's most venerated soldier, General Alexander Papagos, as Premier. Papagos, who had driven the Italians back into Albania in 1941, would not come out of retirement unless he was given a free hand...
...diplomatic wrist-slapping with Chile. The Chilean government asked the Council of the Organization of American States to consider Venezuela's refusal to let ex-President Romulo Betancourt leave Caracas' Colombian embassy, where he had been since the coup. Replied the junta: 1) Betancourt had just been given a safe-conduct, and Chile knew it; 2) Chile had been guilty of an "unfriendly act" in even mentioning the subject. To make it stronger, the junta called its ambassador home from Santiago...