Word: j
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...civilian Harry Truman wanted for the job was playing hard to get. But Washington expected any day to hear that able John J. McCloy had quit his $30,000,-a-year, tax-free post as president of the World Bank to become U.S. High Commissioner for Germany. General Clay would leave this week, whether or not the appointment was certain. He was anxious to get down to Georgia for some catfish-ing and the comforts of retirement...
Blonde Cinemactress Virginia Mayo, 26, appeared to two men to be the answer to a problem. "The Sultan of Morocco told [her] that she was for him the most striking proof of God's existence," said the Rev. A. J. Long, 29-year-old bachelor pastor of Britain's Southwark Unitarian Church. "Why not?" mused Pastor Long. "The beauty of woman is a revelation...
With the King George case postponed until next fall, the Gloucester County case was decided first. U.S. District Judge Sterling Hutcheson last winter found Superintendent J. Walter Kenney and the three-man school board guilty of contempt for failing to carry out the equalization order. But the judge delayed sentence to give the defendants a little longer...
...measured by the Federal Reserve index based on the 1935-39 average) had tumbled another 5 points to 179. The index stood a full 16 points below last November's postwar peak of 195. This was the sharpest five-month drop since the 1945 reconversion shakeout after V-J...
...VOICE OF THE COYOTE (386 pp.)-J. Frank Dobie-Little, Brown...