Word: nationale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week they learned that the signals were changed. Democratic National Chairman Bill Boyle let it be known that he (and therefore Harry Truman) was now for Jimmy Roosevelt. Boyle was no man to underestimate the crowd appeal of the name, the smile, the memory-waking voice. Said one party...
The Communists have even penetrated the colony's British-built schools. One day last week a group of dockyard laborers' children gave an evening entertainment to raise funds for the Communist armies. A girl teacher with pigtails and hornrimmed glasses exhorted her audience shrilly: ". . . A bright new future...
Saturday afternoon, with dusk coming on, Panama's mild-mannered President Daniel Chanis screwed up his courage to summon Colonel Jos´ ("Chichi") Remón, chief of national police, for a painful interview. The press had been pounding hard with charges of police grafting in the control of...
Big (6 ft., 190 lbs.), fleet-footed Jackie Robinson, 30, the first man to cross the color line into the major leagues, was voted by the sportwriters Most Valuable Player in the National League. As second baseman for the pennant-winning Brooklyn Dodgers, he had been the league's...
Massive Leon Hart, 21, an end for Notre Dame, won the Maxwell Memorial Trophy award as college football's player of the year. Although he still has two more games to play, rival pro leagues were bracing to bid for the tall (6 ft. 4½ in.), rugged (252...