Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sparrow's Fall. In Seattle, after nine hours' deliberation, a federal jury decided that George Bohnstedt was guilty of reusing a canceled five-cent stamp...
Thanks to Donald Rogers, our Providence, R.I. correspondent, TIME'S Business & Finance department had known about Joe Axelrod for some time. As our story said, in nine and a half years he had parlayed a $5,500 investment into an integrated textile empire worth $16 million. When a recent addition of a seventh plant to his holdings completed the integration, our Business editor decided it was time to tell the story...
...members of his Cabinet-George Marshall and James Forrestal-are men of unusual ability and integrity. Certainly Mr. Truman's Cabinet works together without any audible bickering. The President thinks of them as a "great team." But a team is no good without a good manager. The nine Cabinet members work in as many different fields; there are bound to be serious differences of opinion. When the Truman team was first called together, Presidential Adviser John Steelman was supposed to coordinate things for Manager Truman. But most of Steelman's coordinating ended in confusion...
...warm, humid darkness fell on Wrightsville (pop. 1,760), Ga., one night last week, a long line of automobiles drew up at the ballpark. It was the eve of rural Johnson County's Democratic primary, and 400 Negroes had registered to vote. Two hundred and forty-nine men & women climbed solemnly out of the cars, holding black oilcloth bags. Heads down* to evade the gaze of curious bystanders, they took out the white sheets and sugar-sack masks of the Ku Klux Klan and hurriedly pulled them on. Then, in slow single file, they marched to the paved square...
...Atlanta, Maud Ethel Pope, 38, who married her husband when she was 11 and he was 12 because he was the "prettiest thing I ever saw," was expecting her 22nd child. Nine children are living...