Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Checks received by mail from non-resident students and faculty members ranged generally from $5.00 to $25.00, with the average at about $10.00. Most checks were accompanied by letters to the Committee, including the following note from one of the faculty...
Then Ezequiel Padilla called in reporters. He showed them a penciled note allegedly smuggled out from the imprisoned Mario. In the note Mario repudiated the confession, and said it had been wrung from him only after he had been starved, threatened with a pistol, and "beaten up like in the time of the Inquisition." Said Padilla: "The darkest chapter in Mexico's history of iniquities." Said Secret Police sub-Chief Jesùs Galindo of Mario's blast: ''Nothing but lies...
Last week in Washington dignified Elisha Walker got in to see the Mead Committee, just under the wire of its recess for one month. He informed the war profits investigators that slick Murray Garsson had got the $5,000 on a note signed by Representative Andrew Jackson May, chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee; then both had reneged on paying off the loan...
Figl made it clear that he was unimpressed by mighty Russia's note. Parliament recessed to give the delegates a chance to think it over. Within 15 minutes the delegates returned, voted unanimously for Figl's bill...
...explosion so fantastic, so mighty and so beyond belief that men's emotions burst from their throats in wild shouts. . . ." It was beyond description, but he did not want his paper to be beyond describing it. On the end of his dispatch, he tacked a beseeching note to his editor: "Don't take any superlatives out of my copy. This was SOMETHING...