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...conference with Attorney General Tom C. Clark. If Tom Clark had held up the sale with the idea of the Government operating the lines till the coal strike was over, he gave no hint. With all the lobbying going on, he might only have intended to toss the hot potato into the new Congress...
...eleven men for whom this night held no dawn ate a last supper of potato salad, sausage, cold cuts, black bread and tea. At 9 p.m., the prison lights were dimmed. At 10:45, U.S. Army Security officer Colonel Burton C. Andrus walked across the prison courtyard to set the night's lethal machinery in motion. The whole prison was permeated by the thought of impending death. (The Courthouse movie announced the next day's attraction: Deadline for Murder...
...hard fact was that the Government had hot-potatoed the labor problem from one man to another, somehow hoping that tossing it about would cool it. But the potato was finally back in Mr. King's hand, and it was still sizzling...
...encouragement worked well. Potato production in 1943 reached an all-time high of 464,999,000 bushels, there was plenty for all. But last week the Government was reaping a bumper crop of wastage from the seed it had so generously sown. Perfect weather and DDT combined with the Government incentive to boost this year's crop to a near-record...
State had a hot potato to handle; even circumstantial evidence was hard to find, and it did not want to get into a public brawl and be accused of Red-hunting. Its six-man screening committee moved cautiously, marked many dismissals for "incompetence" or other causes. Added to the ousted 40 were 39 others who were dropped because they were aliens or did not meet citizenship requirements. More than 200 others were put down as ineligible for permanent employment...