Word: karle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dinner party at Washington's elegant 1925 F Street Club one evening last week, Mrs. Karl Mundt was seated next to Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield. He asked after Senator Mundt, who was attending a night session of the Senate. Mrs. Mundt said the Senator (up for election next year) was downcast because of the Oahe Dam. Summerfield politely asked about the dam, and Mrs. Mundt rattled off the facts & figures. A $14 million appropriation for the South Dakota dam had been dropped from the 1954 budget, she told Summerfield, and it was a pity. After all, $16 million...
...German Autobuilder Karl Benz's tiny plant one day in 1902 came Austria-Hungary's wealthy Consul General Emile Jellinek. He promised to order 30 of Benz's famous racers to enter in the Nice road race "if you'll name them for my daughter Mercedes." Consul Jellinek got his cars (they won the first 30 places in the race) and his daughter Mercedes' name became a world-famous symbol of automotive quality and speed...
...KARL THIELE St. Louis...
...Karl Hey, ace Penn pitcher, is leading circuit hurlers with a four-one record. He has struck out 49 to lead in that department, and has compiled a phenomenal 0.98 earned run average...
...greater majority of executions are conducted in secret, and with the exception of those few convicted after sensational court trials, newspapers seldom even report such occurrences. Statistics also prove that states with stringent punishments for capital crimes have as high a crime rate as states with no death penalty. Karl Scheuessler in Deterrent Influences of the Death Penalty concludes that "case studies consistently reveal that the murderer seldom considers the possible consequences of his actions, and, if he does, he evidently is not deterred by the death penalty...