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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Payoff. In Winchester, Ky., Deputy Sheriff R. L. Cruse swung his sledge hammer at a slot machine seized in a raid, hit the jackpot for a lone nickel...
...When the degree was originally offered in the fall of 1945, the Rev. William L. Shuttleworth objected because the President "likes his poker and drinks his bourbon." Last week Mr. Shuttleworth was still intransigent: "The principle involved will not die with the granting of a degree...
...France, too, Communist power in the unions is more important than the party's position in the Government. The Communists have edged aging Léon Jouhaux out of the real leadership of France's Confédération Générale du Travail, have made Communist Co-Secretary General Benoit Frachon the real boss over the Confédération's six million workers. French Communists, through unions directly controlled by Communists, can stop key industries, including metals, light & power, railroads, building, mines, chemicals, textiles, food processing, communications. The constant threat...
...Paris, the poor huddled in the metro and the rich, wearing overcoats, huddled in the Crillon bar. The statuesque stone Zouave emerging from the Seine at the Pont de l'Alma wore a girdle of solid ice around his midriff. The soft silk draped around slender mannequins at Molyneux's, Lanvin's and Worth's felt as cold as the Zouave's ice. The Paris Models' Union announced that the wages for its members posing nude in unheated studios would be upped 30? an hour, effective "as soon as the model complains of chair...
From Boca Grande to Naples, a terrible smell hung over Florida's west coast. On the sandy beaches, or tangled in mangrove swamps, lay millions of big & little dead fish, eels, crabs, scallops. Natives and visitors (including Coalmaster John L. Lewis) held their offended noses. So many tourists began hurrying home that the nervous Lee County Chamber of Commerce wired Washington (the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service) for help and advice. Last week Army airplanes were spraying the masses of decomposing fish with DDT to prevent a threatened fly plague...