Word: howards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Extenuation. In Andover, Conn., Mrs. Samuel T. Howard complained to police that her husband had shot at her because she failed to sew two buttons on his trousers...
...hawked around to almost every wheelhorse in the Democratic stable. Harry Truman had offered it to John Steelman, to the A.F.L. Teamsters' old "Uncle Dan" Tobin, to New York's ex-Senator James Mead. Caught by surprise when Congress decided abruptly to adjourn, Truman told Democratic Chairman Howard McGrath to call Tobin in Boston and to tell him-not consult him, but tell him-that his nomination was going up to the Senate...
...traditionally play footie with Senator Harry Byrd's Democratic courthouse cronies, put up no candidates for local offices. Winner of their nomination for Congress: Tyrrell Krum, 48, conductor of a column on veterans' affairs for the Washington Times-Herald, who will try to pry labor-baiting, reactionary Howard Smith from his well-entrenched (18 years) congressional seat...
...Howard Hall is the most closely guarded building in St. Elizabeth's (mental) Hospital, Washington. All its 175 patients are criminally insane. Many are paranoid: hostile, suspicious, frightened, withdrawn into their own delusions. Last spring one inmate suggested starting a newspaper. The doctors approved, and the Howard Hall Journal was launched. Last week, as the fifth issue of the Mimeographed monthly (grown from ten pages to 20) went to press, St. Elizabeth's called it therapeutic journalism...
...trying to describe the difference between the Press and most other papers, Roy W. Howard once said: "It's a paper with a heart." The heart beats strongly enough to make the Press the healthiest in the chain; the profit is $2,000,000 a year. For ten years the Press (now 280,000 daily) has run ahead of the Plain Dealer (255,000) and News...