Word: phoned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Concluded Mrs. Cronin: "If anybody has the answers, please-write, wire, phone. Do something...
Blackjacks & Threats. His enemies fought back, sometimes cleverly, sometimes crudely. Four libel suits were filed against him for a total of $175,000; Dunn won two and the other two were dropped. Voices on the phone snapped, "Lay off the clubs or I'll kill you." In 1955 Dunn was blackjacked. A few days later, an ex-Marine boxer told him that he had been offered $500 by the chief of police to give him a beating. At the trial of the police chief (on a charge of soliciting a person to commit a felony), Brother Richard Kellam handled...
...grimly put pressure on the defectors. Soundtrucks, parked near their homes, blared: "Your neighbor is a scab. He has sold 650 striking co-workers down the river." Pressure of a still grimmer kind was applied to Inquirer Movie Critic Mildred Martin, widow of Newsman Linton Martin. She got one phone call from a man who said: "This is Linton. Come down and see me soon...
...country in 1957. But before he left, he thoughtfully put aside funds-things are like that in Thailand-for Berrigan to keep going until he could scrape together enough money to buy control of the World for himself. Today Berrigan is such a national institution that diplomats phone him openly for guidance, and Thai officials consult him on politics- foreign and domestic. What is more, by his wit and wits, Editor Berrigan has turned his World into one of the genuinely cultured pearls of the East...
...chief of the Associated Press Bureau in Berlin, pestered officials of Communist East Germany for a seemingly impossible story: an interview with the nine U.S. soldiers held incommunicado in East Germany since their helicopter was forced down last month (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). One night last week Topping's phone rang, and a voice said with no explanation: "Please come to the East Berlin Foreign Ministry tomorrow morning...