Word: returned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Locked in his room at a mental hospital in Galveston early last week, Louisiana's Governor Earl Long was raging. He wanted out, demanded that he be permitted to return to his home state. He hired lawyers; then he fired them when they refused to do his bidding. At length, he implored his wife Blanche to get him released, promised her that he would submit to psychiatric treatment in New Orleans. Blanche Long, worried about her husband's loss of weight and fearing for his weak heart, agreed. After Earl signed a paper releasing his wife and state...
...reason for her return is no secret: Josephine needs money. After World War II, after the excitement of helping the Resistance and the pocketful of citations (including the Legion of Honor), Josephine opened an orphanage for children of all races and creeds. But her lavish experiment in international race relations used up a fortune of 300 million francs ($600,000). Josephine decided to go back to work. The sentimentalists who come to cheer her chocolate arabesques are the financiers of her mission; they are also her accomplices in creating an illusion-that Paris and Josephine Baker have not really changed...
...share, based on 1958 figures, would have been only $15,586), but over the years they could conceivably build up to the point where a future president might get more than under the old bonus system. No Bethlehem executive is so optimistic as to expect bonuses to return to what were the really good old days. In 1929 President Eugene Grace set an alltime record by collecting $12,000 as salary. $1,623,753 as bonus...
...Indians to fight, Rogers' stock was high. His most famous raid, which took him 150 miles into enemy territory, obliterated the troublesome Indian village at St. Francis, near the St. Lawrence River. The raiders had bad luck; the French discovered their cache of food and boats for the return voyage, and cut off all possibility of retreat. "This unlucky circumstance," Rogers recorded laconically, "put us in some consternation." But the Rangers pushed on, slogged for nine straight days through a vast spruce bog. Sacking the Indian town was comparatively easy, but the journey back to Crown Point was harrowing...
...were in print at week's end, and Grove was moving them by every means except dog team. The outlook: more publicity, more sales this week, when the publisher seeks an injunction against the postmaster of New York. As for Postmaster General Summerfield, he is now free to return to his more customary reading matter, mostly books and magazines about hunting, fishing, motorboating. He is currently on Zanza buku, the account of safaris to Africa. whose four-letter words for the most part are confined to oryx, topi, lion and Zulu...