Word: palme
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...interested in this reaction to your "Excuse It, Please" story [the firing of a Florida copy editor for an unauthorized editorial lambasting Palm Beach revelries-TIME...
...weekly radio feature on WJAS, Harold Cohen, local drama critic, commented that ex-Copydesk Assistant Whitehurst of the Palm Beach Post-Times undoubtedly told the truth about New Year's Eve in his city and in most other American cities; and, instead of being fired, he should have had his salary doubled, and should be recommended for a Pulitzer prize...
...House was droning through its debate on the manpower bill. Many a black-leather seat was vacant, many a Congressional chin rested in a Congressional palm, when Michigan's veteran John D. Dingell got the floor to make a brief speech on another subject. He spoke of "the rising tide of resentment and criticism among veterans of World War II because of the issuance of an indistinct, cheap, and unworthy discharge button. . ." Afterwards the debate on manpower went...
Because New Year's Eve was his boss's night off, a copydesk assistant named D. L. Whitehurst was in charge of putting the Palm Beach Post-Times to bed. Instead of merely editing the last-minute news, he felt like making some of his own. He banged out a 650-word article and slapped it on Page One. Sample: "Half-drunk women heard their drunker men tell why this bloody mess, so far, far away would be over before another New Year. . . . They had been in combat-with their draft boards. . . . They had their stripes-deferment stripes...
...still has a larger gross from its small department stores and small-town chains. Gimbel's', solely an operating company, is only in bigger cities, as Manhattan, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Milwaukee. Gimbel-owned Saks stores are in Manhattan (two stores), Beverly Hills, Chicago, Detroit, Miami Beach and Palm Peach.There has been no Gimbel-owned store in Vincennes since...