Word: l
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jeered and denounced. When lightning struck a house next to his summer cottage on Sullivan's Island beach, its owner nailed up a neatly lettered sign: "Dear God, He Lives Next Door." Every man entered in South Carolina's senatorial race vilified him during the campaign. Congressman L. Mendel Rivers sought to institute impeachment proceedings against him, cried: "Unless he is removed . . . there will be bloodshed. He is now in the process of extracting a pound of flesh from the white people of South Carolina because, through his own actions, he has been ostracized from their society...
...week's end, the Journal-American persuaded itself that the story was "already the most sensational cause célèbre since the days of the Dreyfus case in France." The Communist Daily Worker announced darkly that it "was timed with the negotiations for a peace settlement in Germany-and timed to prevent such a peace settlement...
Banks. The World Bank, turning from lender to broker, got ten U.S. banks to lend four Dutch shipping firms $12,000,000 to buy cargo-passenger vessels. Henceforth, said Vice President Robert L. Garner, the World Bank will try to steer foreign loans to private institutions...
...acre, ten-hangar Teterboro Air Terminal. This closed the last escape hatch for airlines that objected to the Authority's landing fees at Idlewild and hoped to take off on transatlantic flights from Teterboro (TIME, July 12). Price: $3,115,000. Teterboro's owner, Frederick L. Wehran, got the property...
...Answers: 1) Ibrahim Hakimi, 2) John L. Lewis, 3) Cesare Lombroso...