Word: l
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the Senate Office Building, the would-be assassin walked quietly out into the street. Within two hours police found him, learned that he was an ex-Capitol policeman named William L. Kaiser and fetched him back to be identified by Bricker...
...bottled up in his Senate Foreign Relations Committee Harry Truman's nomination of onetime Attorney General Francis Biddle as U.S. representative on the U.N.'s Social and Economic Council. Biddle finally requested that his name be withdrawn. The President's prompt second choice: Willard L. Thorp, Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, who had Vandenberg's warm backing...
...Gerald L. K. Smith, who has been labelled America's Number One Fascist, made a very successful appearance in Boston's Old South Meeting House Sunday afternoon. The one-time head of the America First party, currently promoting his Christian Nationalist Crusade, could scarcely have asked for a reception better suited to his purposes. He got front page publicity complete with banner headlines and pictures in Boston newspapers. He was able to place himself on the side of law, order, "Americanism," and free speech--all without uttering a single audible word...
...estimated 100 men and women from Harvard and Radcliffe attended the shouting down of Gerald L. K. Smith last Sunday, with about 35 actively assisting the Boston Youth Council and the remainder serving quietly as spectators...
France's pudgy Minister of the Interior Edouard Depreux insisted that the plot was "widespread" and must be taken seriously. Said the Paris newspaper L'Aurore: "Lamballe? Why, there is, in that old Breton village, a street called 'L'Impasse du Haha.' . . ."** For reasons that will remain obscure to Americans this is regarded in France as a brilliant political crack, explaining everything...