Word: hills
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japan-the only suit he had taken along and which he had worn ever since-he took the oath of office, watched by a beaming Harry Truman. Then he went to a meeting of the Cabinet (his job carries Cabinet rank), met reporters again and sortied up to Capitol Hill...
...Wobblies were on the march to keep a legend of martyrdom alive. That legend is woven around Joe Hill, a tough Wobbly organizer and songwriter ("You'll get pie in the sky when you die") who was put to death (by a firing squad) for murder in Utah in 1915. Wobblies charge that he was framed...
Last January, the New Republic had printed an article about Hill by Wallace Stegner, professor of English at Stanford University. It concluded: "Hill . . . was probably guilty of the crime [a coldblooded killing of two men] though I think the State of Utah hardly proved his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt...
...students spend half the time in class, the other half learning a trade in workshops, on the farm, at the airport, printshop or radio station. As in 1919, the Bible is still the book J.B.U. students know best, and drinking and dancing are forbidden on College Hill...
Smoke, No Fire. Those who expected a proxy fight at American Tobacco Co.'s annual meeting were disappointed. George Washington Hill Jr., who resigned in a huff a month ago (TIME, March 29), did not show up. President Vincent Riggio announced a first-quarter sales increase over the same period last year in both unit sales (up 8.10%) and dollar sales (up 8.06%). Stockholders in turn expressed confidence in the management by re-electing 16 directors and voting down a ceiling on executive compensation (Riggio's pay last year...