Word: takings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chanis then appointed a board of four men, headed by the Minister of Government and Justice, and sent them to police headquarters to take command. While they were on the way the President telephoned Lieut. Colonel Bolivar Vallarino, Remón's second-in-command and ordered him to surrender his authority. Vallarino listened glumly, mumbled a request to speak with Remón, then hung up abruptly and set to work. As matters later turned out, that was the precise moment when Chanis' hopeful plan began to fly apart...
...conduct a bit unreasonable also; his secret departure had been a sure way to bring the press tallyhoing after him. Said one reporter sourly: "We don't like this business any more than you do. I'd like to get out of here and take in a football game." At that, O'Dwyer tried futilely to get a plane to take him away...
...Hall alone and met another horde of newsmen. One of them tossed a copy of the New York World-Telegram on his desk and pointed to a story of a baker who said he was delivering a wedding cake to the mayor this week. Any comment? Snapped the mayor: "Take that paper off my desk." The "merciless intrusion" of the press, he moaned, "could do a lot toward breaking up my friendship with Miss Simpson...
Commented Wisconsin's biggest daily, the conservative Milwaukee Journal (circ. 319,126): "We have a feeling that no one will take Senator McCarthy's question very seriously. Politically, he'd probably do a lot better charging Mr. Evjue with being what he is-a capitalist. It would probably make Mr. Evjue a lot madder...
...first 26 patients who got the treatment were relieved of pain; X rays showed that their ulcers had healed. Most were able to discard their pappy ulcer diets and between-meal snacks, but they must take banthine regularly; it is a palliative rather than a cure...