Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grounds of illness if he was to be present. "Bilmanitis" became a Washington gag. When he died last year, the Russians recovered from Bilmanitis. But they well knew that they might have a relapse. While there is no Latvian Government in Exile, Latvian Minister to London Karlis Zarins still holds the extraordinary power to appoint diplomats (granted him by his government just before the Russians took over...
...Join the Communists." They were the first of 95,000 whom the Russians had promised to send home this year. Some 300,000 other Japanese P.W.s were still unaccounted for. What had happened to them was anybody's guess...
...oratory, the party agreed that it must proceed carefully so as not to lose its legal standing. One speaker defined the party's task: "To dream of a perfect, serene, ideal world preceded by years of torment and contemplation of spiritual ideals." Despite its recent gains, M.S.I, was still more notable for dreaming than action...
Grand Dragon Dr. Samuel J. Green of the Ku Klux Klan gave an interview for The Nation to Negro Journalist Roi Ottley, who told Green that scientific thought and world opinion ran counter to the theory of Negro inferiority. Insisted Green: "I'm still livin' in Georgia, no matter what the world and science thinks." Why, asked Ottley, do Klansmen wear disguises? Explained the Grand Dragon: "So many people are prejudiced against the Klan these days...
...kicking off the 1949 campaign, Chicago got its chance to remind its citizens that it had pioneered in bringing the fight against VD into the open. Its publicity-loving Health Commissioner, Dr. Herman Niels Bundesen, once dragged in Al Capone's girl friend for a blood test. He still tacks up syphilis quarantine signs himself, with the butt of a pistol, on any tavern which refuses to send its bar girls in for tests. Pointing to Chicago's syphilis rate, which has dropped 45% against a national drop of 37%, Bundesen boldly boasts: "Chicago is the safest place...