Word: lesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Counter-Revolution. In Chicago, Lester Elvin Brown explained to cops that he was "trying to revolutionize criminal methods" when he handed a cafe cashier a note reading: "Madam, this is a holdup. On your shoulders rests the responsibility for the aversion of a tragedy...
...Lester E. Eliott '23, a Negro who was forced to join his dark-skinned compatriots in the temporary end zone stands...
...Laurent's Under Secretary, Lester Pearson, had already done an able job as chairman of the U.N. Assembly's special committee on Palestine. Last week, U.N. delegates talked about giving him that job again. But Minister St. Laurent sidestepped. "Mike" Pearson was needed at home. Said the Toronto Globe & Mail, acidly: "If Mr. Pearson could readily be spared from Ottawa, he would not be the kind of man whose services are in demand for major U.N. undertakings...
Withdrawals. In Manhattan, C.P.A. Lester A. Pratt, a serious student, divulged* that: 1) there are 210 ways to crack a bank without gun or dynamite; 2) bank officials and the help get away with $2 to $6 million a year; 3) 65% soon get caught-if they keep on working the same bank...
...Lester Barlow of Stamford, Conn., an internationally known explosives inventor, advanced the idea yesterday that the objects were radio controlled flying missiles. Mather thought this solution doubtful...