Word: mille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from a prig, Richard Bland (71) is an unbending man. He detests war and all forms of violence, blood sports, meat eating and tobacco, and he once served a term in prison rather than bear arms. Far from holding these convictions against him, the people of the Lancashire mill town of Nelson have twice chosen little (5 ft.) Dickie Bland to be their mayor. "Nelson doesn't like Dickie's principles," said one townsman, "but it does like Dickie." Beyond ordaining vegetarian menus at official luncheons and showing his disgust at puffed clouds of tobacco smoke, Dickie...
...opportunity to play official host to the Queen and her consort Prince Philip as they passed through town on a spring tour of the county. Delighted, Dickie plunged elbow-deep into plans for a gala reception at the town hall and a royal inspection of the local cotton mill. But then he learned that Her Majesty was to be attended at the visit by 100 rifle-bearing airmen of the R.A.F. Pacifist Mayor Bland appealed to a Lancashire county councillor, who in turn appealed to the Lord Lieutenant in charge of the royal tour. Could the airmen leave their death...
Witt's End. Matusow went to El Paso to testify that he had lied when he helped to convict Clinton Jencks, an official of the Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers' Union, which was thrown out of the C.I.O. in 1950 for being Communist-dominated. On the strength of Matusow's recanting, Jencks, who had been convicted of falsifying a non-Communist affidavit, was requesting a new trial. The motion was being heard before Federal District Judge Robert Thomason, a onetime Democratic Congressman with a reputation as a liberal and a first-class lawyer. Judge Thomason changed the situation...
...actually used this court of law as a forum for the purpose of calling public attention to a book, purportedly written by Matusow, entitled False Witness. This court finds the fact to be that as early as Sept. 21, 1954, responsible officials of the International Union of Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers . . . subsidized the writing and publication of this book ... I find that Matusow willfully . . . lent himself to this evil scheme for money and for notoriety...
Inspecting imported wheat last week, the manager of a Brazilian flour mill caught a glint of metal, plucked out the hammer-and-sickle button of a Russian army uniform. How the button got mixed with the grain, no one knew, but it provided a brassy accent for a plain fact: Latin American trade with Iron Curtain countries is rising. Items...