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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hours later in United Service's offices on Lower Broadway, the Remlers and Ava Miller met at last. After the first flush of excitement, they sat down to exchange notes on the search. Then they found that until a month ago, Ava had lived less than 300 feet away from Anna Sobel Remler's Brooklyn home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMMIGRATION: Just Around the Corner | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

...that moment Sam was just a pensioned pumper driver from the Bayonne (N.J.) fire department, and Sam's bar & grill was like any neighborhood joint around St. Mark's Place on the Lower East Side. Its only distinctive touch was Sam's cousin, "Bottle Sam" Hock, who amused the trade by whacking tunes out of whisky bottles with a suds-scraper. But the customers got a joyful jolt when Sam opened up one morning last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: The Nickel In St. Mark's Place | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

...been denied his livelihood by the reserve clause in his contract with the Giants; the injustice in the clause, they said, was the binding of a player to a club for the entirety of his baseball life. In February, the U.S. Court of Appeals returned the case to a lower court, voting 2 to 1 in favor of Gardella's charge of "peonage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mexican Beanball | 4/2/1949 | See Source »

...applicant is smart enough to make the Dean's List, he is almost always accepted, Bender said. Men with lower aptitude are judged on extra-curricular activities, character, alumni parentage, home state, and similar factors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bender Says 'Anti-Bias' Bills Are Not Workable | 3/31/1949 | See Source »

...Zazes based their arguments on the right of the union to freedom of speech and cited anti-injunction laws to point up their appeal for a reversal of a lower-court decision restraining the union from picketing. Lockwood and Dauber, for the company, claimed that the union was trying to force their clients out of business and was therefore not entitled to the protection of the laws in its picketing activities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Choate Team Wins Final of Ames contest | 3/31/1949 | See Source »

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