Word: norness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Company officials protested that they had violated neither the spirit nor the letter of their contract with the union. Labor Leader Gordon Preble, a former steelworker, was adamant. The union, he said, was not impressed by "the song & dance about this guy's mother and sister being persecuted and...
¶Though he can neither read nor write, 25-year-old Lewis West of Miami, a Negro, managed to get himself sentenced to 23 months in prison for forgery. His method: he simply stole Government checks from a mailbox, marked them with an X and got obliging neighborhood merchants to...
"You switched from subsidies to credits and business as usual," Reuter explained to U.S. officials, "but we are getting neither credits nor business ... If you do not give us credit or orders, you must give us up. And if you give up Berlin, you give up more than us."
As Russian pressure on Berlin grew, so did the stature of howling Frank Howley. The Germans found him fair and understanding, the Russians discovered that he could be neither bluffed nor bent. Under General Lucius D. Clay, Howley became one of the chief architects and symbols of victory at Berlin...
Meanwhile, an airlift was organized to fly supplies from the capital to the disaster zone. A Shell Oil Co. plane crashed near Ambato killing 34 rescuers. From the Canal Zone, U.S. C-47s flew in medical supplies and a Red Cross team. "We have not lost our courage," said Galo...