Word: inners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...admitted to the mysterious inner councils. He became head of the Iroquois League, a Democratic organization whose main function was collecting moneys from contractors doing business with the State and from State employes a 2% salary assessment. Last year the Iroquois League was dissolved, the Illinoisans, a similar organization, set up. Mr. Smith headed...
...months ago, for some dark reason, the inner council door suddenly slammed shut in Lyn Smith's face. One rumor was that he had dared to tell Henry Horner, who had been ill for over a year, that he should not run again for Governor. Control of the "slush" fund was taken out of Smith's hands, given to State Finance Director Sam Nudelman. Lyn Smith became visibly nervous. He took to carrying a revolver, surrounded himself with guards of State police. He still had his little black book, and he was reported to have told a newspaper...
After two days of peering & poring-first over the school figures (which count two-thirds toward determining a champion.) and then the free skating (which counts a third)-the judges gravely voted. To the surprise of no one in inner skating circles, 18-year-old Blueblood Joan Tozzer, daughter of Harvard's Anthropology Professor Alfred M. Tozzer, won the women's senior title for the third year...
...Hanover (see cuts). Anti-aircraft fire kept the photographers of Wilhelmshaven (fast, long-nosed Blenhelms) at least 12,000 ft. aloft but the picture reveals at (1) a capital ship, the Gneisenau or Scharnhorst, in Jade Bay; at (2) a set of new locks under construction to connect the inner ship basin with the outer harbor proper, formed by a long new mole (between 1 and 2). Locks are needed because, in the spring, tides here rise 11½ ft. A corner of Wilhelmshaven's great shipyards is just visible on the lower right...
...roving from one Brazilian settlement to another, playing in half-caste cabarets and straw-thatched cinema palaces. And he listened long and often to the jungly songs of Brazil's Indians, the hot, oozing rhythms of Brazil's primitive Negroes. With these in his inner ear, he started to write music-unorthodox, a new musical dialect made from aboriginal shouts and strummings. The salons of Rio de Janeiro made faces at it, thought it barbaric. But the peões in the thatched huts...