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Carl G. Strandlund, inventor of the Lustron prefabricated house and one of the most unsuccessful big businessmen in the nation, did little to mend matters. He claimed angrily that RFC Director Walter L. Dunham of Detroit (who said he had a heart condition which would permit his appearing privately, but would kick up if he talked in public) had participated with Young and others in a scheme to seize control of the Lustron Corp. Dunham, said Strandlund, put on pressure to make him sell 60,000 of his shares of Lustron stock "without compensation." Strandlund said he refused, and that...
...Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital, after a near-fatal bout with a heart attack, H. L. Mencken was off the critical list and on the mend again, upsetting his doctors' predictions and confusing the nurses with orders for solid food and attention. His first demand...
...cabinet of Premier René Pleven. Yet debate over Indo-China at Paris was bitter. Rightist Deputy Edmond Michelet assailed "successive governments" for "an incoherent policy ... As late as Oct. 7 we were told that the Viet Minh forces could not launch a general offensive." Radical Deputy Pierre Mendès-France warned: "If we want to win the war ... we will have to triple our military forces and . . . our military budget. We must choose between the rearmament of Europe and the war in Indo-China...
...Internal Security Act of 1950." If so, it is the Justice Department that should be most aware of them, and any recommendations which it makes should be carefully considered by the Congressmen in November. Perhaps then, with election pressure off, Congress will be in a mood to mend security fences, rather than political ones...
...married Katherine von Bora, an ex-nun, who bore him six children. He became the model for future German papahood, according to Bainton: he appeared to love his children dearly, yet he was stonily unforgiving when disobeyed, and was known to cut up his son's pants to mend his own: he wrote the children gaggingly sentimental letters while he was away from them and sometimes called them "idiots" when he was home...