Word: maile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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London papers last week broke out with a rash of black headlines forecasting changes in the Churchill government. The News Chronicle: CABINET RESHUFFLE ON THE WAY. The Daily Mail: CABINET CHANGES COMING SOON. The factual foundation for the stories was that Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, apparently recovered from the slight stroke he suffered in June, last week had moved back into his official residence, Chequers, and was seeing a lot of prominent Tories for luncheons, and whisky & sodas...
...Heman Sweatt, a Negro mail carrier, was turned down in 1946, when he asked admission to the University of Texas law school. A 1950 Supreme Court decision ordered him admitted...
...million French government employees walked off their jobs last week in a 24-hour strike that left the nation in a state of near paralysis. Trains stopped, telephones went dead, gas and electricity flickered. State banks stopped payments, mail went undelivered, state-employed gravediggers refused to bury the dead...
...strike to bring down the government. This week, when Laniel's reforms were finally announced, the Reds ordered 270,000 Communist railroad men (more than half the total force) to stop the trains again. In some provincial towns, police and soldiers pitched in to sort the mail and started makeshift deliveries, but in Paris the mail sacks mounted higher and higher...
...years. Noel said that after his camera arrived in the prison camp, the Communists put him under 24-hour guard, shuttled him from camp to camp to take photographs. Added Noel: "At first, lots of the boys refused [to pose]. But when a few pictures came back in the mail from their home-town papers, they realized I was playing it straight ... I think the pictures did a lot more good than they ever could have done harm...