Word: notes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ploy didn't work. Langelle refused to talk about his embassy work. The Russian., threatened him with what the official U.S. note of protest politely called "physical violence," warned him that harm could come to his wife Miriam and their three small children. At length the Russians promised him money if he would spy on U.S. diplomats. After an hour and 45 minutes of this, the Russians gave up, let him loose at the corner where they captured...
...paid poll tax. Among the 8,836 Negroes of Carroll County, Miss. (pop. 15,448), where Goldsby was indicted and tried, there is not one registered voter-hence, no qualified Negro juror. Twenty-two other Mississippi counties with similarly heavy Negro populations are also without Negro voters. Taking note of these statistics, U.S. Circuit Judge Richard T. Rives, Alabama-born, ordered Goldsby retried within eight months (after the Supreme Court ruling) before "a legally constituted jury" (i.e., one chosen from a panel from which Negroes have not been excluded), threatened to grant Goldsby's plea for a writ...
...this rosy chorus of economic expansion, the one dissonant note struck last week came from Vance Brand, director of the U.S.'s Development Loan Fund. Henceforth, in granting aid to foreign countries, announced Brand, the fund will "place primary emphasis on the financing of goods and services of U.S. origin." From now on, in other words, the Development Loan Fund is going to demand that its aid dollars be spent in the U.S., even if the same products are available more cheaply elsewhere...
...Chinese-American traveler idly watched a scrawny Egyptian newsboy. The boy got nowhere with his tabloid sheet. But when Richard C. Kao of Los Angeles saw the boy snatch a piece of bread from a restaurant table, Kao decided that he wanted a newspaper. He offered a ?5 note, his smallest bill. The boy quickly fetched the change. Counting it, Kao discovered that he had got his paper free. It was simple enough, the boy explained. The slender man "with the kind face" had only a ?5 note; he must be broke. The paper was free...
...report released last night, the observers note steps which have been taken during the past year to eliminate these deficiencies...