Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other legislation stalled. The Stratton bill to allow admission to the U.S. of 400,000 displaced persons languished in committee, despite increasing public pressure. In Manhattan, the General Federation of Women's Clubs, reversing an earlier resolution, voted overwhelmingly to support the bill. An RKO-Pathe documentary movie short called "Passport to Nowhere" made a first-run appearance with a plea for U.S. compassion toward European refugees. But immigration sensitive Congressmen preferred to sidestep such a politically explosive issue. The Stratton bill was dying on the vine...
...other folks got madder. Detroit newspapers, which covered Rose City's uproar for all it was worth, discovered that Scott had been arrested in 1931 for drunken driving in Flint, in fact was converted to religion a short three years ago after a nondescript career as a salesman, industrial worker and beer-truck driver...
When Nagy and two other deputies appeared in the window of the hotel overlooking the square, a tremendous cheer went up from the crowd that had gathered there. But this was a short-lived victory, too. The police colonel spoke again: "I warn you, if you appear anywhere in public, I'll arrest you for attempting to incite a riot...
Bearing Up. The short interest on the New York Stock Exchange jumped 226,102 shares between May 15 and June 17, reaching 1,540,493 shares, biggest total since November 15, 1945. But the market continued to edge up. For the week, the Dow-Jones industrial averages were up 1.60 points...
...Bunyanland. In 1943, after a successful career in West Coast radio, Chevigny lost his sight. He learned to dictate his scripts, which he once punched out on a typewriter, has since sold 550 scripts for the Morton Downey show, 97 for the U.S. Treasury, 15 free-lance scripts, five short stories, two articles. Betweentimes he wrote a book, My Eyes Have a Cold Nose (Yale University Press), which he calls a "psychiatric study of the attitude of the public toward the blind...