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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...L. WORLEY Scottsboro...
...amused to see that Edward L. Doheny's five grandchildren owned a company called Los Nietos, which, you explained, means "the relatives" [TIME, Oct. 31]. Nietos means exactly what Doheny apparently intended for it to mean: "grandchildren." The Spanish word for "relatives" is parientes-which looks like "parents," but the Spanish word for parents is padres. In Spanish, as in many other things, you can't depend on appearances . . . Sometimes the results are appalling. Think of the American girl who wanted to say in Spanish that she was embarrassed, for example, and used the word embarazada, which means...
White Flag. But never in his 29 years of imperious reign had John L. Lewis fumbled so badly, and the miners knew it. His three-day work week and the strike had won them nothing-not even a crisis in the nation's coal supply. He had methodically bullied and insulted the coal mine operators into hard and adamant opposition to his demands for higher pay and a bigger slice of royalties for his U.M.W. welfare fund. The fund itself had dwindled until it was necessary to cut off all but emergency benefits-at the worst possible time...
...Peter L. Harbury 3G died yesterday of an electric shock received while he was preparing an experiment in wave propagation in the troposphere at the Vanserg Laboratory on Divinity Place...
...L T Berkeley 5 0 0 Branford 4 1 1 Saybrook 3 1 1 Davenport 2 2 2 Calhoun 2 2 1 Trumbull 2 2 0 Timothy Dwight 0 5 1 Pierson...