Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weeks nothing happened. The soldiers involved were Army engineers, attached to the Air Force, building a Marine base, and Pang had died on a Navy ship. "Nobody," explained an Army officer, "can decide who should hold the court-martial." The case might have outlasted the war had not the correspondent of a small Chicago monthly, Christian Life, mailed the story. The influential Christian Century picked it up, demanded that the Army "make sure this case is not whitewashed ... and that Washington fully recognizes the seriousness of this shocking affair...
...English sturgeon, unlike its zestier Russian cousin, is a flat and flavorless fish unfit for a Queen. For this reason, royalty's rights became a matter of mere second thought last week when Fisherman Fred Warman sailed into Grimsby with a 40-lb. sturgeon in his hold. Warman let the sturgeon go at auction along with the rest of his catch, to Fishmonger Oscar Cleve for 3s, 4¾d. (about 45?) a pound...
...where the morning Exponent (circ. 15,381) and evening Telegram (circ. 24,729) have been the only dailies in town for 50 years, Publisher Cecil B. Highland, 76, rules with an iron hand. The names of local citizens who displease Highland are banned from his papers, even though some hold public office. He has fought daylight saving time, a public sewage-disposal project, and turned down ads for a community project to raise money for the widow of a local hero who had tried to save three boys from drowning. By his own peculiar rules of nonpartisanship, the Exponent...
When Chicago Sun-Times Reporter Ray Brennan got hold of some secret testimony before the Kefauver crime committee, his story was a heavy blow to the Democrats. It cost "Tubbo" ("richest cop in the world") Gilbert the election for sheriff, and it helped defeat the whole Cook County Democratic machine in the 1950 elections, including Senator Scott Lucas, Democratic floor leader. A federal grand jury indicted Brennan, charging that he had impersonated a federal employee (TIME, Sept. 22) to get the secret testimony. The Government's first attempt to prosecute Brennan was thrown out of a Washington federal court...
...while Britons, from their press, often think the U S is made up of "jukeboxes, gangsters and glistening bathing beauties." A false image is being projected," wrote London Sunday Observer Correspondent Alastair Buchan, "of an America where liberals are hounded with bell, book and candle and where people who hold unpopular opinions are afraid to open their mouths...