Word: j
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chief J. Edgar Hoover was down for a $1,000 raise in the original bill. When it reached the floor, two members suggested he get a $3,500 raise instead, and the proposal was quickly adopted by voice vote. His new salary: $17,500 a year...
...tall, broad-shouldered Negro told a solemn story in a Manhattan federal courtroom last week. Manhattan Councilman Benjamin J. Davis, one of the eleven Communists on trial for conspiring to advocate the overthrow of the U.S. Government by force, was the third defendant to take the stand. He was the first to explain with any degree of conviction how and why some Americans become Communists...
...appointment as U.S. minister to Luxembourg reached the Senate floor, Republican Donnell was ready & waiting with a hungry look in his eye. First he demanded to know whether the Senate Foreign Relations Committee had ever discussed Perle's qualifications (it had not); then he read extensively from J. Rives Childs's American Foreign Service, to prove she had none...
Citizen of the World (Sun. 10 p.m., CBS). U.N. documentary by Norman Corwin. Narrator: Lee J. Cobb...
R.U.R. In Dallas, 40-year-old J. B. Faucher complained to the court that he had wanted his son to grow up strong, had built the boy a set of barbells for weight-lifting exercises, eventually found that his i 19-year-old had become a "monster and a bully who orders me around...