Word: l
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After consulting with their military friends, the party bosses decided not to wait until April. Saturday night, while General Rolón and most of his ministers were attending a wake for the Primate of Paraguay, the insiders ran off a swift and bloodless coup, installed Molas L...
This week the new President announced formation of an all-Colorado cabinet, and promised that the elections would be held. In plain words, Molas López would win unopposed-if he lasted that long...
...campus, almost no one had known or cared about the two professors who had been fired at Oregon State College. A few weeks ago President A. L. Strand had simply told them that, after June, their yearly contracts would not be renewed. Since he had given them "timely notice," he saw no reason to explain...
Then anonymous letters began arriving in Portland and Salem newspaper offices. Here was a question of academic freedom, the letters hinted, which reporters should investigate. After that, the rumpus began. By last week, the firing of Chemist Ralph Spitzer and Economist L. R. La Vallee showed signs of becoming as celebrated as the recent dismissals at the University of Washington (TIME...
Three other investigators made a preliminary report on a scientific survey, the first of its kind, in which they looked for some connection between smoking and lung cancer. Chief Surgeon Evarts Graham and Medical Student Ernest L. Wynder of Washington University's School of Medicine, and Manhattan's Dr. Herbert C. Maier, checked 200 male patients who had lung cancer, and a group of 500 without cancer. Of the 200 with cancer, 95.5% had smoked at least one package of cigarettes a day for at least 20 years; only one was a nonsmoker, and all but 3% inhaled...