Word: range
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they were seized with a magnificent idea. Why not go back to Mansfield and kill some reformatory guards? At 1:30 one morning last week they parked their car below the home of the reformatory's farm superintendent, a burly, middle-aged man named John E. Niebel. They rang the doorbell...
Just after noon one day last week at Dower House, the vast 17th Century Maryland manse that once housed the Earls of Calvert and Baltimore, a telephone rang. The Washington Times-Herald was on the phone; an editor had a message for his boss. The butler and maid went to wake their mistress. They found her in her big bed, slumped over a book and an early edition of her paper. A heart attack had killed copper-haired Eleanor Medill Patterson, 63, the vain, shrewd, lonely, and lavishly spoiled woman who used a newspaper to speak her whims with...
...Canada that is to be," Mackenzie King pleaded in the House of Commons last week for an initial town-planning appropriation of $2½ million. Ottawa, said he, should be to Canada what London is to England, Paris to France, Washington to the U.S. For good measure, he rang in the Athens of Pericles and the Rome of the Caesars. His clincher: "Canada may have a future greater than that of the countries I have mentioned . . .* It has possibilities of development that no other country begins to possess...
When the phone rang, big Earl Warren was asleep. He got up, dressed and hustled over to Room 808. For an hour and a half, he conferred with Dewey over the position he had refused in 1944. He laid down a condition: the job must have more responsibilities than simply presiding over the Senate; it must have authority. As the father of five, he was concerned about income. As governor of California, he gets the equivalent of $50,000 a year, including a free residence, cars and plane. As Vice President, his salary would be only $20,000-with...
...Collateral. The promise was both explicit and implicit in the party's platform (see below). It rang through the oratory of the opening days. It even boomed out from Keynoter Dwight Green, the governor of Illinois, who in the past had faithfully followed the "nationalist" line of the Chicago Tribune's Colonel Robert R. McCormick...