Word: maining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Colony Harvard Club: Robert M. Briggs '37, Main Street, Plymouth...
Then violence broke out. In South St. Paul there were bloody clashes as non-strikers ran the gauntlet of massed pickets. About 300 pickets had formed a wall, eight deep, near the Swift & Co. plant's main gate. Sheriff Norman Dieter and a force of 21 cops moved up to read the law: a court order had set a limit of 18 pickets. When no one moved, the sheriff rammed his force against the wall. A few minutes later the bloody, battered cops retreated...
...crowds were solid: young men with girls on their shoulders, midinettes who buzzed about Elizabeth's elegantly homely clothes, and elderly gentlemen with Legion of Honor rosettes in their frayed buttonholes, silver-topped canes swinging gently in their gloved hands. People broke police barriers, crying "Serrez-moi la main!" (Let me shake your hand). One gouty old woman was perched atop a stepladder which her equally gouty old husband kept from toppling over. "Now she steps out of the car, like a queen," the woman reported. "And the Duke, quel beau gosse!" (what a handsome youngster...
...lack of a black suit. The frail 74-year-old economist was a nonparty man who (as Minister of the Budget) had masterminded devaluation of the lira last winter, checked Italy's inflation. He was the one man that Premier de Gasperi's Christian Democrats and their main parliamentary allies-the Saragat Socialists and the Republicans-could agree on. And, though he was antiCommunist, even the Reds joined the applause when Einaudi (in his grey suit) was sworn...
...swirl of rumors, propaganda and outright lies from which it is most difficult to extract the grain of truth. All except eyewitness reports by competent and independent correspondents should be treated with the greatest reserve. Any objective account from any side seems out of the question. There are three main sources of information...