Word: r
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Former Major General Benett E. ("Benny") Meyers, now doing 20 months to five years for the lies he told the Senate investigating committee about his aircraft business, was sued for $250,000 by Mrs. Mildred R. Lamarre, his brunette ex-secretary, for the lies she says he told about their friendship...
...learn. ("You mean a Republic is not [necessarily] a Democracy? That is a new historical revelation to me.") But he was most anxious for a chapter on "The Inevitability of Wars in the Capitalist System." All the other powers protested hotly. Said the U.S. delegate (jovial, white-haired Harry R. Wyman of the Phoenix Junior College in Arizona): "It isn't our purpose here to turn prophet . . ." Replied Major Bagrov: "I didn't mean that at all ... and General Stalin has announced that with a definite will on both sides, both the Socialist and the Capitalist systems...
...posh dinner at the Palmer House -attended by 40 Chicago bigwigs, including the Chicago Tribune's Colonel Robert R. McCormick-the President spoke with unassuming trumanity: "In earlier years I came to Chicago on shopping trips with Mrs. Truman," he said. "I enjoyed looking in the windows. No one paid any attention to me then. I suppose a lot of people wish I was looking in windows again. But they won't get their way because a year from today I'm going to be right back in the same trouble...
...Colonel Robert R. McCormick's isolationist Chicago Tribune, the story rated a Page One banner headline. The Tribune's story: a $15 million-a-year subsidy from the Federal Government had been secretly arranged as a "reward" to a selected few U.S. newspapers, magazines, book publishers and film companies "which shouted the loudest for the 6 billion dollar Marshall Plan...
...June 18, when the cars go on display in dealers' showrooms, Ford expects to have production up to 3,786 a day. Even at that, said Sales Director J. R. Davis, it will be 1950 and perhaps 1951 before the average customer will be able to get immediate delivery from the average dealer...