Word: sent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Helpful Harry. As the hearing wore on, Vaughan developed a secondary theme; that he was an enormously busy man who did thousands of helpful little things for thousands of people. He blandly admitted that he had sent officials of California's Tanforan Race Track to see Housing Expediter Tighe Woods, when they needed scarce building materials, that he had helped Chicago Perfume Importer David Bennett get to Europe during the war, that he had asked Major General Alden H. Waitt, suspended chief of the Chemical Corps, to write a "frank expression" on officers who might succeed...
Repentant Sinner. Pirogov was promptly released. But Barsov was whisked out of sight. The Soviet embassy searched his empty $2-a-day hotel room, then sent a note to the State Department. State...
Politics on Platters. He had actually started his campaign in June when he began writing a column for Ohio newspapers. He distributed it without charge; 180 Ohio dailies and weeklies carried it. He also made a recording a week of his political observations and sent the platters to 40 Ohio radio stations...
...lush Palermo plain, Giuliano has carved out his realm. In six years, the police say, he and his band have killed more than 200 people, kidnaped scores of wealthy latifondisti (rich landowners) and made an estimated $2,000,000 in ransom. Time & again, the Italian government has sent entire companies of carabinieri to capture him. Each time the hills above Montelepre and the undernourished, goatskin-gaitered Montelepre peasants have refused to give him up. Hundreds have been arrested for aiding or sheltering him, but, to most Sicilians, as to most little Roman boys, Giuliano is still a hero...
...waters off their southern coast, Korean fishermen last week snared a giant sea turtle-5 ft. long, perhaps 1,000 years old. They poured three crocks of wine down its gullet, sent it off to Seoul...