Word: l
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Unanimously confirmed presidential pal John W. Snyder to be Secretary of the Treasury, and natty, conscientious John L. Sullivan to be Under Secretary of the Navy (the job Ed Pauley wanted...
...Mayor Edward Jeffries began his speech, a man in the gallery cried: "This ... is treason. We want no Communists in Detroit. You . . . are sitting . . . with enemies of the United States!" Another man threw showers of pamphlets down on the crowd. The pamphlets were from the collected works of Gerald L. K. Smith...
...Grand Junction, Colo., an ex-Army Air Forces officer named Ralph L. Atonides left a friend's wedding-eve bachelor dinner early. Once in the clear he picked up the bride-to-be, a Miss Francy Bigs Kurtz, flew her off to Las Vegas and married her himself...
Crowds & Cops. Some weddings were bigger even than their sponsors had expected. Last week Pittsburgh's Mayor David L. Lawrence carelessly announced that "everybody" was invited to his youngest daughter's wedding. To his amazement almost everybody came; cops had to clear a lane through mobs of curious housewives to get Daughter Anna Mae and her husband out of the church...
Heinrich Himmler, who in life looked like a cross between a wasp and a pig, looked different in death. His death mask (see cut), taken near Lüneburg, Germany, after his suicide (by swallowing potassium cyanide), might have been mistaken for that of a daft and drunken Silenus...