Word: l
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...right to issue the temporary injunction, therefore Lewis should not be held in contempt. The judge was not impressed. He ordered Lewis to appear two days later for trial. At that time he would also listen to arguments over whether Lewis had violated his contract. The battle between John L. and his Government entered a critical phase...
...strategically placed clinics, the mission's chief, ex-Army Major Edwin L. Dudley, a onetime Wake Forest football star, and his staff of doctors had administered 80,000 arsenical injections a month. But among Haiti's poverty-stricken masses, for whom even in normal times soap is an out-of-reach luxury, arsenical treatment is not much more effective than a revolving door. Reinfection occurs quickly...
...editor who took over for last week's issue, chubby, 49-year-old Robert L. Skelton, was in no hurry to tamper with the magic formula devised half a century ago by an insatiably curious young barrister-journalist named George Allardice Riddell. In the British police courts, Riddell found an inexhaustible treasure of news; he set his reporters to mining it. Unlike American scandal sheets, the News of the World has no "sob sister" interviews with murderers and mistresses; the paper never tries to tell a story before it is told in court, because of Britain's strict...
...bidder, Dallas Gasman J. W. Crotty, who had bid $127,500,000, saw more than WAA blundering in all this. Well aware of the lobbying by railroads, coal operators and John L. Lewis' own U.M.W. to prevent the lines from being used at all, Crotty charged that WAA had prevented conversion "for no cogent" but for some "sinister or political" reason...
...Died. László Moholy-Nagy (pronounced Mohoy-Nadj), 51, Hungarian-born founder-director of Chicago's Institute of Design; of leukemia; in Chicago. Onetime top apostle of Germany's famed Bauhaus at Dessau (closed by the Nazis), he thought of art in terms of 20th Century mass production, inspired his Chicago students to design automobiles to run on sunlight, chairs light enough to be lifted by a thread, transparent walls filled with colored gases...