Word: smith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stampede. At week's end, the atmosphere in Washington had lightened perceptibly. Accompanied by State Department Counselor Charles Bohlen, Clay flew back to Germany for a new series of conferences. After talking to Ambassadors Lew Douglas and Walter Bedell Smith in Berlin, Clay hinted this week that the U.S. was willing to reopen four-power talks on a settlement for all Germany. It was a concession; the U.S. had demanded that talks be confined to Berlin, and conducted on the Berlin level...
...force and violence." In addition, each of the twelve was indicted individually for membership in "a society, group and assembly of persons who teach and advocate the overthrow and destruction of the United States by force and violence." The jury's weapon was the eight-year-old Smith Alien Registration Act, originally aimed at fifth-columnist aliens.† Its maximum penalty: ten years in prison and a $10,000 fine on each indictment...
...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...
...proposed new ships would include "defense features" (e.g., extra fuel tanks, space for guns), the Maritime Commission was sure that the Defense department would put up enough extra cash so they could be built. Said Vice Admiral W. W. Smith, the commission's chairman: "It looks good for all of them...
...persistently pleading with the men in the ships to get rid of the Commies once & for all. When the votes were counted this week, tattooed Joe had a triple knockout. Badly beaten were Vice President Howard McKenzie and onetime Vice President Frederick ("Blackie") Myers, both Communists; and Ferdinand Christopher Smith, national secretary, a Jamaican Negro whom the Government is trying to deport as a Communist (TIME, Feb. 23). Joe's slate also ousted all left-wingers from the union's national council...