Word: smith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four-man Board of Control Toronto elected a man who two years ago was an outlaw. After Canada outlawed the Communist Party, in June 1940, Communist Stewart Smith, 37, hid from the police for two years. Later he surrendered, was held two weeks in jail, then released. Last week, still a communist, he moved into an office in Toronto's City Hall...
Colonel Jim was at his best with the rest of us at the Center dance last week. Thanks to Mrs. Clarke the affair was a complete success with Keith Richards, Jack Trumbauer, and Ralph Rolling the more conspicuous figures on the "Paul Revere." Webb Smith and Charlie Ritzen are leading their art appreciation gang down to soak in some Shakespeare this week...
Budget Director Harold Smith had reckoned that by mid-1946 the U.S. would owe its citizens and institutions $292 billion on Government borrowing. This was nearly $61 billion more than it now owes them, $32 billion more than the law allows. Franklin Roosevelt served the obvious notice that during the year Congress would be asked to raise the U.S. debt limit, make more U.S. borrowing legal...
Robert Burns, greatest of Scottish poets, who supposedly drank himself to death (in 1796) when he was only 37, and whose admirers have periodically attempted to redeem his honor, got his bad reputation newly scotched by Dr. Sidney Watson Smith, onetime president of the British Medical Association. In the B.M.A.'s Journal, Dr. Smith presented medical evidence against the "gossip's fable," declared that Burns "suffered and died from subacute infective endocarditis -that microbic inflammation of the heart which usually has a fatal ending in septicaemia...
...Harvard lineup: Glidden, lw; Weston, c; Gormley, rw; Robb, ld; R. Clark, rd; Brock, g. Substitutes: Colby, Creedon, Dickinson, De Gunzberg, Feinberg, Foster, Garon, Howard, Potter Smith, Sterling...