Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leftist Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee who were found guilty of contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over records to the House Un-American Activities Committee (TIME, July 7). The whacks: for Chairman Dr. Edward Barsky: six months in jail and $500 fine; for Novelist Howard Fast and nine others: three months in jail and $500 fines; for Theatrical Producer Herman Shumlin, Leverett Gleason (publisher of comic books) and three others: $500 fines and suspended three-month jail terms. The eleven sentenced to jail appealed and were freed on bail...
...Angeles, sharp-tongued Mrs. Jesse Brink stormed into a county welfare office, threatened to go back to Oklahoma with her husband and nine of her eleven children because the family relief check had been cut from $278 to $126. "Only rats could live on that," she cried. "It won't pay for our gasoline." Last week, after five years in California, the startled Brinks found themselves rolling eastward. California authorities had not only taken Mrs. Brink's dare but had bought four new tires ($125) for their 1931 La Salle sedan and had deposited expense checks ahead...
...Heir for Heritage. There were the usual disasters in the air. Ducks, gulls, buzzards, and even whistling swans, reported the Wall Street Journal, were colliding with man-made airplanes at the rate of nine a week. Other birds, after being electrocuted and tied in sacks, were being hurled at speeds up to 500 m.p.h. at the windshields of stationary airplanes by scientists of the Civilian Aeronautics Administration...
After Japan surrendered, Lyuh organized the left-of-center People's Party. Last year fellow Koreans of varying political stripes tried nine times to kill him. The extreme rightists hated the quiet, silver-haired teacher because he helped create a left popular front movement. The Communists wanted him out of the way because he fought their attempts to infiltrate his party...
...Hedda's girlhood, as she recalls it, is swirled in mist, lit by occasional flashes of fire. She was born Elda Furry, in Hollidaysburg, Pa. (near Altoona), in 1890. Her father, a meat dealer descended from a long line of Quaker ministers, begot a long line of children (nine), of whom Elda...