Word: mention
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Your story of "Zoot-Suit War" in Los Angeles [TIME, June 21] certainly "jumped the gun" on facts. No mention of the several murders committed by "zoot-suit gangs"; no mention of unprovoked attacks by them; no mention of unguarded knives and brass knuckles found in their possession when "not doing anything"; no mention of two single women in different parts of the city beaten by female gang members...
...wholly shocked to learn that any person could even suggest that the Government should be run by such men as Senator Taft, Ham Fish, Colonel McCormick, Senator Wheeler and John L. Lewis, not to mention Governor Bricker, among the greatest dispersers of nonsense in the Midwest...
...dissident Republicans and the old America First crowd, seemed to have notified the Tribune of the meeting's prime importance, because the Tribune sent aging Arthur Evans, its top-rung reporter on local politics, to cover the meeting. The news was coyly buried on p. 3, did not mention the McCormick boom until the second paragraph...
...Lorillard Co. (Old Golds) has trip-hammered the claim that its cigarets contain less nicotine than others, ever since the Digest's tests a year ago showed this to be technically true. But the Digest now reports the FTC complaint that Old Gold's ballyhoo "carefully omits" mention of the fact that "the actual difference between the average amount of nicotine in an Old Gold and in two other brands was one-177,000th of an ounce. By switching to Old Golds, the addict who smokes 20 cigarets a day will subject his system to only one-24th...
Well, here it is, almost a week since the N.T.S. Pop's Concert and I can still remember what a swell affair it was and how much fun we all had, not to mention the whole two and one-half ours added liberty...