Word: hangings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...workers will prevent Lecoeur from performing his nefarious piece of work." When the doors of the hall opened, a crowd of 1,000 Communist bullyboys, who had descended on Hénin-Liétard, rushed to the stage and, to the accompaniment of Communist harpies crying "Kill him! Hang him!", beat Lecoeur to a bloody pulp. Editorialized L'Humanité: "The renegade Lecoeur got the reception he deserved." Editorialized Paris' conservative Figaro; "Such fury can have only one explanation: fear...
...GREIXAS! WHAT TANTRUMS. The polite but disapproving headline of London's Daily Sketch all but marked the end of U.S. hopes to hang on to the Wimbledon title that Tony Trabert used last year as his ticket to the pro ranks...
...show varies inversely with the number of Hollywood stars on it and the time they stay around. Sullivan's solution of the problem (how to get his viewers tuned in with the magic of a lot of big names and not let the big names hang around to drive the viewers away) had an iridescent beauty of its own. He lined the names up and let them give him a 43-gun salute to celebrate his show's eighth anniversary on the air. Then the names disappeared and the show went...
...employees: either sell out and pay up the bills, or get the paper on a businesslike basis. Fox went into a four-hour huddle with employees and emerged with a statement that the union leaders all proclaimed "satisfactory." At week's end, Fox was still scrambling to hang on to the Post...
...company will hang on to American's name "for future use." As part of his drastic, long-range overhaul, President Smith, 47, a onetime journalistic wunderkind on the San Francisco Chronicle, wants to start a newsmagazine. Smith already has added a phonograph-record division to Crowell-Collier, is shopping for a daily newspaper and in the last two months has bought six radio and four TV stations across the U.S., including a pair in Honolulu. Under his three-year regime, the company's profitable book division ( Collier's Encyclopedia, the Harvard Classics) is expected to double...