Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bosses and Mrs. Roosevelt got together in a traditionally smoke-heavy private dining room of Albany's Hotel DeWitt Clinton the night before the convention. To satisfy the A.L.P. and P.A.C. they picked slender, sharp-faced Henry Epstein, onetime State Solicitor General and a member of P.A.C.'s national executive committee, for a 14-year State Court of Appeals judgeship. To add a bit of luster to the slate, they drafted Albany's 36-year-old Mayor Erastus Corning II, an ex-G.I. and Yaleman, for Lieutenant Governor...
...bangs and Harold Lloyd spectacles who once wowed Paris with his brush drawings of cats and catlike women. Other standouts: Junkichi Mukei's Bataan Death March and Hoshin Yamaguchi's General Attack on Hong Kong, which had an Oriental delicacy of line only partly obscured by smoke from the burning city...
Wherever it led-to Greece, Turkey, China, Korea-the U.S. apparently meant to go. Uncle Joe Stalin could put that in his pipe and smoke it. That was exactly what he was doing this week, when he summoned Molotov from Paris to the Kremlin (see INTERNATIONAL...
...line of cars hurtled down a six-lane highway in bright daylight. Suddenly, a shift in the wind whipped smoke from a burning garbage dump across the highway, forcing one driver to slow down. In a moment, the line became a screeching, telescoping, side-swiping shambles; 25 ears were wrecked or damaged; 13 people were injured, seven hospitalized. But, except for the number of cars involved, it was routine. Nobody had been killed...
...Bled, a Yugoslav alpine resort, two American UNRRA workers on holiday watched a U.S. transport plane come in from, the north. Two smaller Yugoslav planes darted about it. Suddenly the transport began to smoke, rolled over on its side, plunged into a wooded hillside. The two Americans started for the scene of the crash. They scrambled up granite slopes past a Yugoslav officer who paid no attention to them. But when they started down the mountain after a futile search for the wreck, the Yugoslavs had set up a machine gun at a roadblock, carefully checked their identification...