Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Breathers. In Bennington, Vt., impatient Murder Defendant Harold Frotten broke out of jail, left a note explaining: "I'm tired of waiting for that damn trial so went out for a little fresh air." In San Francisco, Charles Jones and Clarence Jacobsen, recaptured after a jail break, explained that they were short of cigarets...
Because they suspected a fellow prisoner of war of writing a "traitorous" note, five sullen and shifty-eyed Nazis had brutally clubbed him to death; an Army court-martial had swiftly found them guilty. At Fort Leavenworth last week they were hanged for their crime...
Freedom of discussion was at the heart of the veto issue. The Russians wanted to interpret the veto so that one power could shut off discussion even in the Security Council. At this point Stettinius took his stand and saved the conference. He told Molotov, in a formal note, that the U.S. would sooner have no charter at all than one with this restriction. Meanwhile, Harry Hopkins in Moscow put it up to Stalin. The Russians gave...
...been "tampered with." Bernard Shaw briefly climbed the barricades to pat Communist candidate R. Palme Dutt on the back, declare that "practical British Communism saved us in the war in the west." Sighed Labor leader Herbert Morrison: "The election is in danger of degenerating into a comic opera." Agricultural Note. There was the traditional crop of crank candidates. Wackiest of all seemed to be Churchill's eleventh-hour opponent in Woodford, Essex, doughty Alexander Hancock, 47, a farmer...
...glowering of columnists, suddenly bared to his readers a gentle, wistful soul. Sourball Pegler confessed that he had found his "stock of merry jape and ready wit" quite low, and was "considering steps to correct this. . . ." Whether his boss (Hearst) had told him to get off his Johnny-one-note of hate toward labor leaders, foreigners and New Dealers, or whether Pegler had decided all by himself to change his tune, no one knew. Wrote Pegler...