Word: lated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mayor Reuter said the Western commandants would back a Russian promise that there would be no reprisals against returning strikers. Said Reuter: "The Western powers are not small children who don't keep their promises." An angry striker yelled back: "It's too late. We know the Russians. The Western powers will take care of us-after we've disappeared...
...copy of Blue Book Magazine, to old check stubs found in a discarded suitcase in a Baltimore attic, to memoranda from the German secret service uncovered in the archives of the Austrian government. McCloy traveled from Dublin to Warsaw, interviewing Irish Republicans and such German characters as the late Franz von Rintelen, who masterminded German espionage in the U.S., and Rudolph Nadolny, who was then a German secret service man in the Wilhelmstrasse and is now active in behalf of Soviet Germany. In 1936, the Germans started to give up. Five years later, the American claimants recovered $26 million...
When he was last at home on Long Island, blond, blue-eyed Dan McCarthy couldn't forget the wonderful time he had as a G.I. in Germany. He liked to sit up late with his memories, listening to German records and sipping wine by candlelight. In March, he sailed for Europe on the S.S. America. At the U.S. consulate in Frankfurt he said he wanted to renounce his U.S. citizenship. "I cry inside when I think about America," Dan confessed, "I'm homesick for my mother and the subways of New York, but my destiny lies here...
Back in Manhattan, Oscar Hammerstein II, co-author with the late Jerome Kern of Ol' Man River, was less enthusiastic about the liberties Robeson was taking with his classic. "I have no intention of changing [the lyrics] or permitting anyone else to change them," he said. "I further suggest that Paul write his own songs and leave mine alone...
Roswell (pop. 25,000) was a sleepy little cow town when Hurd was a kid. He left it for two happy but unbrilliant years at West Point, later spent five years with the late Illustrator N.C. Wyeth, at Chadds Ford, Pa., learning to paint. Hurd married Wyeth's artist daughter Henriette, then moved back to New Mexico, where the Kurds and their three children have taken joyfully to ranch life. Says Hurd, who has gone on painting junkets to Egypt, Hawaii, Nigeria, India, England, Italy, Brazil and Morocco: "It just happens that this part of the planet is where...