Word: j
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...special embalmers got started, Dimitrov looked impressive in death (see cut). Less attention, however, was focused on the dead man than on the living who surrounded him. Describing a Moscow ceremony, before Dimitrov's body was sent to Sofia last week, Pravda wrote: ". . . 23 hours 20 minutes: J. V. Stalin enters the hall. With him, placing themselves in a guard of honor, are Comrades G. M. Malenkov, L. P. Beria, K. E. Voroshilov, L. M. Kaganovich, A. I. Mikoyan, N. M. Shvernik, N. A. Bulganin...
...Grandview, Mo., while Harry Tru man's sister, Mary Jane, officiated down town at a cornerstone laying, brother J. Vivian Truman suffered a concussion and back injuries falling out of a hayloft...
...Fairchild Engine & Aircraft Corp.'s plant in Hagerstown, Md., Chairman J. Carlton Ward Jr., 56, last week called his stockholders' meeting to order. Thin and grey as a timber wolf, Ward seemed calm, but he had good reason to be nervous. Before him sat Sherman M. Fairchild, 53, the company's founder and onetime president, who had come to Hagerstown sworn to kick Ward...
Died. Major General Vernon E. Prichard, 57, chief of the U.S. Army's Public Information Division, wartime commander of the ist Armored Division in Italy; of a concussion suffered in a yacht explosion in which onetime diplomat Colonel Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr. and his wife narrowly escaped death; on the Potomac River, Washington...
Salvage. In Oneida, Wis., John J. Everhard, whose wife had loaded her belongings into a wheelbarrow and left him for the eleventh time, asked the Press-Gazette to "put an item in the paper...