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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...M. AXELROD Cleveland, Ohio...
...Francisco Bay, these questions & answers started and summarized the most important deportation hearing of the decade. Answerer was Harry Bridges, the long-nosed bony Australian whose power over Pacific longshore labor won him top rank in C. I. O. Hanging on his answers was hard-boiled Dean James M. ("Chink") Landis of Harvard Law School, former head of SEC, whom Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins drafted as special examiner. Also attentive, though not in the little dining room, were large shipping and industrial interests to whom Laborite Bridges personifies Satan; eminent politicians to whom the labor vote is extremely important...
...soldiers and citizens entered, and his troops opened fire, killing 30. After three hours of cannonading the walls were breached and "The great and important scene now followed. The GOVERNOR, the PRINCE, the FORT MAJOR and Officers were conveyed to the HOTEL DE VILLE, and after a SHORT TRIAL . . . M. DE LAUNAY and the MAJOR were executed by first SHOOTING, and then CUTTING OFF THEIR HEADS...
...first. By noon some 150 English warplanes, carrying 400 men, were hovering over France; heavy bombers had passed the steel mills of Bordeaux, toward which other squadrons were speeding; medium bombers had circled Orleans, passed Le Mans on their way back to Cherbourg and home. At 2 p. m. the first squadrons of Blenheims and Wellingtons were at their airports; five minutes later the lighter bombers landed...
...called her Dik-Dik (after the royal Abyssinian antelope). Neighbor kids called her Spooky Sloppy Lula. One day Dik-Dik saw a solemn, horse-faced young man coming down the street-the answer to a maiden's seance. Lula charged, threw her arms around his waist. "I'm Dik-Dik," she said. The stranger, who hailed from South Brooklyn, had a "heart as clean as a baby's," was the fourth deputy assistant editor in a publishing firm. He told her his name was Mole, agreed to come to her house to live. Thus begins April...