Word: side
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate side, Administration witnesses hardly seemed to be trying. Both Treasury Secretary John Snyder and Federal Reserve Board Chairman Thomas McCabe were plainly reluctant to discuss price controls. Said Secretary Snyder: "I have stated many times that I am not in favor of price controls. Nor am I in favor of castor oil. But if I've got an ailment and it's going to save my life, then I'll take...
...Take Care of Him." The next evening Johnny West began asserting himself. He forced a sedan to the side of the road in the hope of getting false identification and a new getaway car. He leaped out, looked in at a man and woman, said: "You're going too fast-give me your driver's license." The driver, a farmer named James Smith, refused. Johnny West pulled a pistol, shot him through the head...
...rousing polka carried into the silent street. Beyond the curtained windows, in one of eleven rooms brilliant under crystal chandeliers, the hundreds of Berlin's international set were being greeted by a short, thin man in uniform. His perfectly bald head with a wiggly scar on one side distracted their gaze from his soft brown eyes. He was Major General Jacob Prawin, chief of the Polish military mission. The occasion for celebration in this very unfestive city was Poland's Liberation Day, a new national holiday...
Thus last week the soldiers of Britain's youngest dominions shot it out with each other for the favors of the beautiful, fabled State of Kashmir lying between them. Neither side was willing to admit that it was war. To a U.N. commission on hand seeking for a way to peace, the Indian government explained over & over again that Kashmir had voluntarily acceded to India, that India's soldiers were there only to clear Kashmir's soil of all enemies so that her 3,000,000 independent citizens could vote peaceably on their own future...
Died. Elmer Lincoln Irey, 60, founder and longtime boss of the U.S. Treasury's sleuthing T-men, nemesis of such bigtime racketeers as Al Capone and Waxey Gordon; of coronary thrombosis; in Shady Side, Md. Promoted to chief coordinator of all Treasury law-enforcement units in 1937, he retired in 1946, collaborated on the Hollywood production...