Word: similarities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kappler's superiors, Field Marshal "Smiling Albert" Kesselring and Generals Kurt Maeltzer and Eberhard von Mackensen, were originally condemned to death by a British military court on similar charges, later had their sentences commuted to life imprisonment...
...instant he had finished, Southern leaders were on their feet. Texas' ex-Governor Dan Moody offered the South's minority report defining the sovereignty of the states. Two other Southerners, Mississippi's Walter Sillers and Cecil Sims of Tennessee, followed with similar amendments. Cried Sillers: "Give us the right to govern our own fundamental affairs!" Then ex-Congressman Andrew J. Biemiller, of Wisconsin, a onetime Socialist who helped manage Norman Thomas' campaign in 1932, a colleague of Humphrey on the platform committee, presented the Northern minority report on civil rights...
...week the pressure was high against Ford Motor Co., which had not boosted wages like General Motors, Chrysler and other motormakers. Ford's 110,000 workers had voted to strike, but few United Auto Workers' officials expected that it would come to that. They expected a raise similar to the 9% increase given last week to Ford's 25,500 white-collar workers...
Television looked like a threat to the picture services, if a distant one. As an experiment, the New York Star last week published three pictures of the Democratic Convention photographed in Manhattan from a television screen by an ordinary camera (and no flashlights). LIFE also ran similar pictures this week. Acme, the New York Post and the New York Daily News have also taken pictures from television screens. Their results, like the Star's, have been too fuzzy and distorted to run as news pictures, though no worse than the early wired photos. But television will improve...
...flocked in to register. Under previous schemes, 22,200,000 low-income people were en titled to free care; they were joined now by 14,500,000 more, a total of 36,700,000 out of a population of 41,460,000 in Eng land and Wales. (Separate but similar schemes started at the same time in Scot land and Northern Ireland.) Said one gleeful patient: "I've been paying my doctor ten shillings sixpence ($2.10) per visit twice a week. Now the fellow has to attend me for 15 bob a year...