Word: l
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Year for 1946 I nominate honest, fearless, and the most capable man in the U.S.-The Honorable Harold L. Ickes. F. B. GRIFFITH Alexandria, Minn...
Sirs: If, on Feb. 13, you felt a great breeze from out of the West, don't be puzzled. It was just a great sigh of relief from the people of the West that the Old Curmudgeon, Harold L. Ickes, had, at long last, resigned. ... So many of us have lost our homes here in the West through the action of Mr. Ickes in setting aside great tracts for the scenery. . . . ANN COOPER Cody...
...that you omitted Thomas Wolfe from your list of our best authors. This is incredible. . . . Although they are unorthodox, his novels which are sheer poetry in spots are well on their way toward becoming American classics that are required reading for any student of literature. . . . JOHN C. HENCHEL E. L. GALLIGAN Philadelphia
Would April rival January? John L. Lewis, announcing that he wanted a new basic wage agreement, filed a 30-day strike notice on behalf of 400,000 members of the United Mine Workers. Some 300,000 railroad engineers and trainmen, seeking a 25% wage increase, voted overwhelmingly for a nationwide strike against some 130 U.S. railroads...
Spring was just around the corner. The U.S. Military Government felt the seasonal compulsion, and broke out with bright buds of optimism. First, Colonel Frank L. Howley, governor of Berlin's U.S. sector, heartily hailed the "unqualified success" of the joint occupation during its first six months, cheerily added the tactless and probably inaccurate boast that the U.S. now was the most influential power in Berlin. Hard on Howley's heels, General Joseph T. McNarney, commander of U.S. forces in Europe, reported that food stocks in the U.S. zone were surprisingly ample...