Word: store
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days Estes Kefauver and his attractive, redheaded wife Nancy had trudged the sidewalks of the small towns, from the Canadian border (where Nancy spoke rusty French) to Massachusetts. They would stop their borrowed car on the outskirts of each town and walk up Main Street, introducing themselves to the store owners, shoppers, cops and kids. In the cities, they headed for newspaper offices and courthouses to shake more hands. In Manchester (pop. 82,732), Kefauver walked through a slaughterhouse, a shoe factory, a brush plant, an insurance office and several mills. Beside each workman he stopped to shake hands...
...cabin. This is just a legend. The Kefauvers were a branch of one of the first families of Madisonville. Tenn., a small (pop. 1,487) town in the foothills of the Great Smokies. Aside from Depression stringencies, father Robert Cooke Kefauver was comfortably fixed. He owned a local hardware store and served five times as mayor of Madisonville. To pick up extra money and toughen himself for football at the University of Tennessee, young "Keef" worked through one summer in a Harlan County (Ky.) coal mine. There he lived in a sweaty attic with four other miners and developed...
Reportedly the store has already informed officials that it will sell the book as a test case...
...Boston store, which is part of Doubleday and Company's chain, will be the first store that has flaunted the state's warning not to sell the book. No Square store has offered to sell the book...
...section by Ralph Lowell, trustee of the Council, probably gives the best indication of what's in store for the future. It states that Council members have been "vigorously engaged in exploring the best means for taking advantage of the proposed reservation of VHF channel 2...They are agreed that the (Council) is the proper agency to coordinate their efforts, and the rising of funds...The Council is actively seeking these necessary funds and is more than reasonably confident that they can be secured (if the channel is reserved in Boston...