Word: orlandos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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HAROLD SCHWARTZ 2nd Lieutenant Orlando A.F.B. Orlando...
Despite the talk of peace and love, bullets flew in Havana only six hours before the inauguration as a raiding party of cops shot it out with a longtime enemy of Batista's, Orlando Leon Lemus. Known all over Cuba as El Colorado (Red, the color of his hair, not his politics), Lemus was one of the most pistol-happy of a pistol-happy tribe: the Cuban "revolucionarios," who plotted against Batista in the '30s and early '40s, then became government-coddled racketeers under Batista's successors. Last week, tipped off that El Colorado...
Died. Dr. John R. (for Raleigh) Mott, 89, elder statesman of Protestantism, Methodist layman, honorary president of the World Council of Churches and the World's Alliance of the Y.M.C.A., a founder in 1895 of the World Student Christian Federation, 1946 Nobel Peace Prizewinner; in Orlando...
...Life. In Orlando, Fla., when sheriff's deputies found E. R. Kriss beating lustily on the lid of a garbage pail and howling like a dog, Kriss explained that he wanted to get even with his neighbor's hound, which had kept him awake by barking...
Some of the conditions the subcommittee found worthy of criticism with regard to Clark arose in a case involving an Orlando, Fla. bond dealer named Roy E. Crummer. In 1944 Crummer was indicted for mail fraud in connection with two municipal bond issues. Crummer's trial lawyer brought into the case Attorney Francis P. Whitehair, a crony of Harry Truman's crony Donald Dawson. In turn...