Word: m
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Departing for a European vacation, Manhattan's District Attorney Frank S. Hogan said: "Anyone who commits a crime while I'm away is an ill-mannered person...
Well, the cover portrait of him is perfect. The Pied Piper motif-oh, drop dead! I'm one of the rats...
More important than all these considerations, Truman had done Boston's ex-convict Mayor James M. Curley a favor. Curley had been nursing a grudge ever since Truman let him spend five months in jail before commuting his sentence. Dever was Curley's man. With Tobin out of the race, Dever was assured of nomination, and Jim Curley, thanks to Harry Truman, was given a free hand in Massachusetts Democratic politics...
...Veterans Administration Dental Service had a new chief. Dr. Bion R. East, 63, dean of Columbia University's School of Dental and Oral Surgery since 1945, was appointed last week to a job vacant since the death last October of Dr. M. M. Fowler. Next month he will take over one of the least publicized and most expensive operations in the vast ($7,001,514,365-a-year) Veterans Administration programs...
...employees. Last week the directors said no. Then the board informed the press that "to increase [the] deficit by meeting further demands . . . would be imprudent to the point of irresponsibility." And with that, the board of directors called off the season. Said Opera Association President Charles M. Spofford: "I guess the unions just didn't take us seriously...