Word: offs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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At week's end, miraculously, there was a respite. A cold air mass from Canada moved across the Northeast, cooling off-at least for a few days-both farm houses and city tenements.
All session long, McCarran had bottled up in his Judiciary Committee the liberalized D.P. bill which the Administration was determined to push through before adjournment. Under the pretense of looking into subversive aliens in the U.S., McCarran had run a one-man filibuster, playing back the undocumented allegations of such...
A Regular Formula. Medina warned defense witnesses that they might be jailed for contempt if they refused to answer proper questions, cut them off sharply when they plunged into shrill attacks on Wall Street, the Ku Klux Klan or the Atlantic pact. "This trial would go on for an indefinite...
The burning days & nights tried the tempers of millions. In Detroit during the week, 45,000 automobile workers walked off the job because of "heat strikes." In Philadelphia, gangs of young hoodlums drove the water department crazy by smashing hydrant couplings and thus assuring themselves continuous shower baths. Across the...
The Communists had been cleared from the Peloponnesus, Central Greece, Eastern Macedonia and Thrace. Only 17,000 were left in the mountain strongholds of Vitsi and Grammos. Government generals sent the first units of their 65,000 U.S.-equipped troops into the Grammos sector, where the guerrillas had been expecting...