Word: goode
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile Vito Marcantonio had been hopping about on the fringes of the fray, on one occasion with his good friend, Henry Wallace. He cried that the assessed valuation of rich men's buildings was being reduced, that recipients of city welfare were about to be starved, that vested interests would release torrents of nameless horrors if he were not elected. He also complained that someone had thrown old cantaloupes at him from a building...
...question before the court was whether Adolf Schmidt, a German-language instructor who came to the U.S. in 1939, was a man of "good moral character." Applying for U.S. citizenship, Schmidt admitted casually that he had had sexual intercourse with unmarried women "now & then." Schmidt said he saw nothing wrong with that: he was a bachelor, 44 years old, the women were unmarried, and nobody seemed to mind. But the examiner was shocked. Application denied...
Last week in Manhattan the case of Adolf Schmidt was ruled on by the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Schmidt's lawyer argued that moral character is not something determined by an immigration examiner but something "that measures up as good among the people of the community in which the party lives...
Since Moscow's May Day air show in 1947, the world has known that Russia has some very fast and possibly very good jet-propelled airplanes. Now, Jane's All the World's Aircraft, just off the presses, has told what it knows and surmises about Russian jets. With five drawings ("impressions") and one photograph,, Jane's gives some interesting descriptions, some of them fragmentary, of Red single-jet fighters, twin-jet attack bombers and fighters, four-jet bombers...
Says Jane's, which is authoritative though unofficial: "The Soviet government has taken over and put to good use German experimental establishments, factories, plant, equipment, designs and experimental prototypes . . . Virtually the whole of the Junkers plant has been reestablished in Russia. An experimental development section of the company is located . . . 100 miles to the north of Moscow, and its main production unit is at Kuibyshev [on the middle Volga] . . . Here, it is reported . . . large-scale production of an Ilyushin bomber is being undertaken...