Word: streets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the option seemed to have run out. A newsman called at Browder's one-room, $100-a-month office on Manhattan's West 42nd Street and found that the publishing business had been closed up since the end of July. Earl Browder no longer had a pipeline to the Kremlin. "I have not been able to talk to Joe Stalin and find out if he still loves me," said Browder, wryly. "I am unemployed at present and looking...
...Sunday the BBC repeated a solemn announcement that "the Right Honorable Sir Stafford Cripps, Chancellor of the Exchequer," would have something important to say at 9:15 that evening. When the hour came, Sir Stafford, in clipped, clear accents, spoke into a microphone at No. 10 Downing Street: "Good evening. I don't think I need tell you that I've just got back from the United States, where I have spent the last fortnight with the Foreign Secretary trying to work out, with our Canadian and American friends, some solution to a very serious problem...
Despite Cripps's inveighings against "profiteering," Britons who had bought South African gold shares, in anticipation of devaluation, made whopping profits. Two thousand traders, shut out of the Stock Exchange, gathered outside the building on Throgmorton Street. For an hour the crowd was quiet. Then one trader made a bid-and the boom was on. Brokers, jobbers and clerks shouted orders. Clothes were torn and hats battered...
Franks was then sent to Downing Street to give Churchill the right set of figures. Bevin was deeply impressed by Franks as "the only man in the Ministry of Supply whom Beaverbrook couldn't bully...
...Clearwater, Fla., 14 green flags stolen from the Clear-water Country Club last Christmas were returned with a note: "Sorry but we can't find any use for these." In Wichita Falls, Tex., F. D. Clark reported the disappearance of a 30-ft. telephone pole from Pocahontas Street. In New Brunswick, N.J., Kenneth Bergen's stolen sport jacket and two pairs of slacks were returned with a note: "Too small...