Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...white voting officials for an explanation, the commission, chaired by Michigan State University President John A. Hannah, got meager cooperation. Of 14 officials subpoenaed for the hearing, six refused to appear. Others, like Macon County Probate Judge William Varner, 70, came, but were studiously circumloquacious. Varner did not know how many voters were on Macon County's rolls, had never seen a registration form. But he was certain there was no discrimination; white and Negro applicants filled out the same form. Snapped former Assistant Labor Secretary J. Ernest Wilkins, Negro member of the commission: "How would you know...
Interviewing officials did not know whether to consider him a self-appointed, Rudolf Hess-like emissary from the East, a Soviet propagandist or a crazy mixed-up author. They finally decided to let him stay...
...onetime accountant from Georgia, who earned a law degree in seven years of Washington night school and in his government career has had more to do with budgets than with diplomacy, Assistant Secretary Rountree had never run into such calumnies in his life. "You know the mild gentleman he is," said State Department Spokesman Lincoln White at a Washington press conference...
...preventives. They found that a popular nonprescription item, Entero-Vioform, gave no more protection than an inert (dummy) pill; an antibiotic, neomycin, appeared to give about 40% protection. But before they prescribe free-for-all use of such potent drugs as antibiotics and sulfas, the researchers want to know more about many factors, including viruses, as causes of globetrotters' trots...
...father says he doesn't know...