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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Budd spent $240 million improving the service. In 1930, as a sort of busman's holiday, he took on a job for the Soviet Union. He inspected its 4,800 miles of badly managed railways and recommended ways of improving them. In 1932, Budd stepped into the Burlington (jointly owned by Hill's Great Northern and the Northern Pacific) which had been hit hard by the depression...
...greatest social workers in the United States. Following these attacks, Miriam Van Waters was dismissed on January 11 as superintendent of the Women's Reformatory at Framingham by her superior, Commissioner of Correction McDowell. She demanded --and got--a special hearing to clear her record, but under a strange sort of law, this hearing was conducted before the Commissioner himself. McDowell was therefore judge, jury, and prosecutor; his decision last Friday to sustain his original findings was hardly surprising...
Lawyer Louis McCabe arose. Medina turned on him. "Oh," said the judge, "now it's your turn to go after me, is it? ... Some day, somebody will read the record of this case and they'll see just how many times this sort of thing has gone on, and somebody may be brought to judgment...
...drugged or beaten. All that can be said with certainty is that Mindszenty's whole life proved he was a brave and stubborn man, a man who at every fork in his life proudly took the dangerous, uphill way; to have made such a man "recant" was a sort of miracle of evil...
Stocky, brown-haired Robert Proctor, the 23-year-old team leader, was not the sort to walk away from trouble. Handy with his fists, fluent in Texmex Spanish,* he had been one of the most promising rodeo riders around Tucson, Ariz, before he went south to help stamp out aftosa. He had handled plenty of tough situations; he figured he could handle this...