Word: killinger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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A year and a half ago Bob Ramspeck went up against the spoilsmen-masters of legislative sabotage. He had drafted a bill empowering the President to cover into the civil service by examinations some 200,000 job holders in 26 Federal agencies; to extend departmental Washington pay scales to the...
"The bombs fell on a golf course, killing 75 unnamed rabbits. There were 25 persons in an Anderson shelter only a few feet from the golf course and the rabbits, and they weren't even scratched. A parrot, blasted from his cage, was seen walking down the street muttering...
The cities were safer, but not much. The big wind hit Chicago at 11:01 a.m. In two hours there were 600 emergency calls to the fire department. Chimneys went down, a water tank plunged through a roof, a cornice dropped to the street, killing a Negro, the ten-story...
As it spun out, the testimony seemed confirm the frequent assertion that Communist zealots will use any means to achieve their desired ends. The court heard that Elvira Copelo had been the mistress of one of Prestes' closest comrades. After the latter went to jail in 1938, the girl...
Thus weakened in Guatemala, TACA lost more face in Costa Rica when one of its planes, on an unscheduled flight, whanged into a mountainside, killing the pilot and five passengers. Hoping the plane had merely made a forced landing in a deserted spot, TACA withheld news of its lateness for...