Word: stops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from Paris into their Arab sphere. Fawzi chuckled as he told how he and his tall, 26-year-old German wife had almost been in British hands in Palestine, where there is a ?2,000 price on his head. Their Paris-to-Cairo plane made an unscheduled, hour-long stop at the Lydda airport, surrounded by British cops. Their names were on the flight list, their baggage plainly marked. But no Briton came near the plane as they sat inside...
...Pilsen begged the Austrians to visit its best hotel. And in two coal mines of Ostrava, miners promised to work two extra shifts digging coal for Austria. In hockey-happy Czechoslovakia the joke of the week was a cartoon showing a man carrying a bag overflowing with rare food. "Stop him," cries a woman. "He's a black marketeer." "Oh, no," comes the answer. "Just an Austrian...
...members of the anti-Communist Bloc Populaire last week asked the Dominion Parliament to outlaw the Labor Progressive Party "because it is in fact a Communist Party under another name." The motion probably will not get far. The Government knew that banning the Labor Progressive Party would not stop the Communists. The Communists are always a name ahead of the Government...
...gravy train made another Mississippi whistle stop. Senator Theodore G. ("The Man") Bilbo finally came across with the $100,000 church and parsonage he had been promising constituents ever since 1928. About 10,000 of them, flivvered down to Juniper Grove to get in on the 3,000-lb. beef barbecue. The Man had offered to let the whole 80th Congress come along in a body, but everybody seemed to have previous engagements. The Rev. Gerald L K. Smith showed up, though, to say that Bilbo was "the most persecuted man in the world." The Man himself wasn...
...nuisance when a boyish-looking U.S. Congressman can't stroll through the Capitol without being mistaken for a House page. Pennsylvania's George SarbacherJr., 27, Massachusetts' John Kennedy, 29, and Missouri's Marion Bennett, 32, were the chief victims. The House decided it had to stop. From now on House page boys would have to dress like Senate pages: black tie, white shirt, blue serge suit-with knickers. The pages rose as one boy. A uniform, yes. Knickers, never! The House yielded...