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...rough sea, he was reported lost by the Boston papers, but the Coast Guard refused to search the Bay for him unless one of his family first reported him missing. Meanwhile, his brother-in-law, Stephen A. Thomas, brought suit against Grover for threatening him, and a warrant was sworn...
...some treacherous bargain. "We laugh at Adenauer," crowed Grotewohl, and Deputy Premier Otto Nuschke, with the Russians' beaming approval, deliberately mocked at every Adenauer claim of achievement. "What Premier Bulganin promised Adenauer about the release of ... prisoners was only the result of our work," said Nuschke. Adenauer had sworn that he would never negotiate with East Germany. Said Nuschke cockily: "There will either be unification of Germany by negotiation with the East German government, or there will be no reunification...
...Licks. In London, Sidney Adams was fined ?3 ($8.40) after Mrs. Mary Jane Andrews testified that he had sworn to drive his neighbors mad, kept them up with noisy music night after night, once played a record of Shake, Rattle and Roll for 2½ hours...
...past 18 months 1,500,000 U.S. cigarette smokers have sworn off, the U.S. Bureau of the Census reported after completing a survey of the smoking population for the National Cancer Institute. Still smoking: 38 million, most of whom run through 10 to 20 cigarettes...
...right away and I don't want any excuses!' " The bill creating the WAAC was passed by Congressmen May 14, 1942, over anguished opposition (cried a Representative: "Think of the humiliation! What has become of the manhood of America?"). Mrs. Oveta Gulp Hobby, a Houston publisher, was sworn in as WAAC director. Notes the book: "Her wide-brimmed hat proved unreasonably difficult to photograph...