Word: ille
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Hundred Proof. A West Side Chicago machinist's son, Ed Lahey went to work at 14 as an office boy, later was a shipping clerk, hod carrier and railroad yard clerk before he landed his first newspaper job in 1927, on the now defunct Glen Ellyn, Ill. weekly Beacon. Two years later, after reporting stints with the East St. Louis Journal and the Associated Press, Lahey was hired by the Chicago Daily News, "the only paper I ever wanted to work...
Although the non-intervention ideology and the examples of many ill-fated adventures in 19th-century America and in Europe deterred the Federation from beginning a separate political party, it soon became clear that the organization would be forced to take a more active role on the national scene. In 1947, the AFL established a political subsidiary--Labor's League for Political Education which promised, with AFL financing, to "support candidates on the basis of their record, and not on the basis of personal party favors and party prejudices." The CIO had fewer qualms about direct political activity, setting...
Starvation, squalor, teeming restlessness and ill-concealed resentment haunt the alleys and byways of refugee-swollen Calcutta, India's biggest (pop. circa 7,000,000) and most turbulent city. There last week, in greater numbers than ever, hysterically cheering Indians turned out to greet the touring missionaries of Muscovite good will, bulletheaded Communist Party Chief Nikita Khrushchev and his straight man, Soviet Premier Bulganin. Streets along the line of entry were scrubbed and decorated with triumphal arches; the city's swarming sacred cows had been driven into back alleys, and red flags fluttered on every side...
...those days, pro football was a catch-as-catch-can collection of part-time players. Men like George Halas took over the tough job of turning the game into a moneymaking proposition. When the A. E. Staley Starch Products Co. of Decatur, Ill. decided to give up their team, Halas, who was the coach, bought the franchise and moved to Chicago. Now Halas was a triple threat: owner, coach and player all at once. Times were so tough he also doubled as trainer, ticket-seller and publicity man. Not until he signed the great Red Grange in 1925, was Halas...
Except that Herman Talmadge wrote You and Segregation, the book might be dismissed as just another poorly-written, ill-conceived diatribe. But the author, like his father, is a tremendously powerful Southern spokesman. And by his big talk, he betrays himself as a desperate man who will try most anything to preserve a doomed social custom. Unfortunately like all demagogues, his fingers are never far from the public pulse...