Word: pa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...roofs. The Ukrainians aped the nations by demanding impossible reparations; from little Bukowsko they demanded one million zlotys. When the 3,000 villagers raised only 300,000 zlotys, the raiders burned all but eleven of Bukowsko's 400 cottages, John Kinglarski, who used to mine coal near Kingston, Pa., said the Ukrainians had burned his plow and stolen two horses and a cow for which he had paid 8,000 zlotys ($80). Kinglarski, who was wrapped in burlap bags, waved an old U.S. passport. "I had beautiful clothes in America," he said...
Died. John ("Jack") Quinn Picus, 60, oldest active pitcher in major-league baseball at the time of his retirement in 1935, one of the last of the spitballers; of a liver ailment; in Pottsville, Pa...
Gettysburg, Pa...
Overhead Problem. In Johnstown, Pa., an Altoona landlord got no satisfaction when he took his troubles to the OPA: a 400-lb. tenant on the second floor threatened the first floor ceiling...
...Alexander Cadogan (rhymes with pa-DUG-in) was the guardian of the British Empire, a product of Eton and Oxford, a veteran of four decades in the diplomatic service. Cool, clipped, careful, the former Permanent Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs stayed in the background at open sessions. In closed sessions, he was most firm 'in holding the line against the Russians...