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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then the long review was over. Karl Frank was led to the foot of a tall beam from which dangled a hangman's noose. A heavy leather belt was tied around his chest and two assistants hauled him to the top of the beam, where a white-gloved hangman fastened the noose around his neck. The assistants let go. A mild cheer broke out and was hushed by court dignitaries. Of all the eyes that watched, not one was softened by compassion...
...King's old enemy) nor from the Soviet Union (which regards the new British-sponsored state with suspicion). Abdullah I made a polite speech from the throne, carefully avoiding most of the Middle East's hottest issues, whereupon the court and guests proceeded to Marka airfield to review Trans-Jordan's British-trained Arab Legion. Its leader, Glubb Pasha (occidental title: Brigadier John Bagot Glubb, D.S.O., O.B.E.) stood next to His Majesty on the sun-scathed reviewing stand, picturesquely martial in a spiked helmet, with a long sword by his side. After the two-hour parade, everybody...
Many a priest has posted the weekly Legion of Decency film ratings on his church bulletin board and let it go at that. To help such fathers better guard their flocks, the American Ecclesiastical Review recently devoted a lead article to an explanation of Catholic moviegoing policy. Gist: when you don't know...
Operation Crossroads (Tues. 10 p.m., CBS). Albert Einstein, Mrs. Wendell Willkie, Harold Ickes, Gen. George C. Kenney and many others review the atomic bomb and its effect on U.S. thinking...
...soldier George L. Googe, the A.F. of L.'s Georgia-born Southern sergeant major since 1930, formed up the delegates representing 1,800,000 Federation members. They passed in review before A.F. of L. President William Green. (The lines were somewhat thinned, owing to a transportation tie-up occasioned by the coal strike called by the A.F. of L.'s 13th vice president, John Lewis...