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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wreath. In the thunderous heyday of Prohibition gangsterism, Roger the Terrible was the jaunty cockalorum of northwest Cook County. After leasing a few trucks to rumrunners, he abandoned a $50,000-a-year automobile business for bootlegging-and thereupon set in motion a relentless procession of events that led to his death. With a partner, Matt Kolb, he carved out an empire of suburban speakeasies, controlled a big slot-machine franchise, sold 18,000 bottles of illicit beer each week, boasted that he made $1,000,000 a year. He also made enemies: to Al Capone and his henchmen, Touhy...
Even when the old bitterness subsided after World War I, France's traditional anticlericalism-a strain that runs from Voltaire to Sartre-remained just below the surface. In 1945, when De Gaulle set up his postwar government, he, though himself a devout Catholic communicant, curtly withdrew the wartime subsidies that Vichy had set aside for Church-run schools. But still, one in five French children attended the church schools, though the buildings were often in miserable shape, and learning, except for the top Jesuit schools, suffered from ill-paid and inferior teaching. The question of state aid to Catholic...
...large white settler population, Britain was happy to make Tanganyika its first testing ground for self-rule in East Africa. "Sooner or later we have to take the plunge with all our territories in Africa," said Lord Perth, Minister of State for Colonial Affairs. "We believe this will set a pattern for others...
...tension in Windhoek mounted, a beer-hall picket knocked over a can of malt beer that had just been bought by a woman customer. The woman called the police. Within minutes, police and an angry crowd of several thousand were scuffling. The blacks set the beer hall on fire, stormed the city jail, and freed all the prisoners. Some even dared the soldiers and police to shoot them, taunted, "You are too frightened by the United Nations." The soldiers and police obliged: by the end of the day, twelve Africans had been shot to death...
...gave precise details of the arms, function and organization of India's border patrols, his own operations prior to the ambush, and the location of Indian check posts throughout Ladakh. As a reward, he got some padded cotton clothing, which did not fit. At this point the Chinese set out to rewrite history by re-enacting it to suit the Chinese version...