Word: northern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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California. Democrat Will Rogers Jr. had two big campaign assets: 1) the name & fame of his father; 2) the name & fame of James Roosevelt's father. Jimmy Roosevelt was the magnet for crowds in the small northern towns as he and Will Rogers stumped them last week. Rogers needed the help. He was trying to carry the Wallace foreign policy on one shoulder and the Truman-Byrnes policy on the other. He was cool to the P.A.C.'s support, and there was evidence that the labor vote was sulkily indifferent toward him. Republican Senator William F. Knowland plugged...
Swinging through Europe, on a hangman's holiday, which will take him to Vienna, Graz, northern Italy and (reportedly) to Nürnberg in time to officiate should Nazi leaders be hanged: Albert ("Yungg Alber"*) Pierrepoint, Britain's Senior Hangman. In Vienna, Pierrepoint will hang eight murderers and rapists, a refresher course for Austrian hangmen (conservative Austrian methods cause hanged men to struggle 20 minutes before dying; the progressive Pierrepoint system kills them almost at once). After his European tour, Hangman Pierrepoint plans to retire and to devote himself to his recently acquired Lancashire pub (name: "Help...
...marchers were members of the "Federation of Families for the Speedy Return of Japanese Soldiers in the Northern Areas." To the Russians they presented a humble petition: "It is full moon now. We are sure that our soldier sons are looking at the same moon, worrying about us as we are worried about them. We ask for your humane consideration...
...sign of obedience, and the doors were flung wide to reveal to outsiders the new leader: Father John Baptist Janssens of Belgium, a Jesuit since 1907; tall, thin, pale, ascetic, 56-year-old ex-professor of canon law at Louvain University, later head of the Jesuit province of Northern Belgium...
...across northern Italy thousands of armed partisans suddenly took to the hills last week. Hurriedly the Government gave in to their chief demands: inclusion of partisans among 15,000 police soon to be appointed; payment to partisans for war damage to their homes; release of jailed partisans pending study of their cases; retention of wartime rank by partisans in the police. Thereupon, some partisans went home; many remained in the hills