Word: tens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harry Truman could not put off a decision much longer. At week's end, a U.S. official summed it up briefly: "We are within ten days of an industrial crisis...
...eleven convicted top U.S. Communists stood up before Federal Judge Harold R. Medina to be sentenced. For conspiring to teach and advocate forceful overthrow of the U.S. Government, ten of the eleven were sentenced to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine each. The eleventh got a $10,000 fine and three years in prison. Robert Thompson, New York state chairman of the party, had gotten a lighter sentence because of his war record: he won the Distinguished Service Cross in New Guinea for swimming a swollen river under fire and, with his platoon, wiping out two pillboxes...
...last week Father Divine, whose spiritual followers love to press their money on him, sent seven of his faithful flock from Philadelphia to Newark to buy the 300-room Riviera Hotel. It was a simple process. The seven loaded seven battered suitcases full of five, ten and twenty dollar bills, took them on the train, lugged their burdens seven blocks from the station to the Federal Trust Company. There they set their bags down and asked Federal's astonished bankers for a $550,000 treasurer's check...
...That's Heaven . . ." Ed roamed around Moscow for ten days. He said it was 90% slums. He said pregnant women worked on paving jobs in the streets while army officers walked around. Caviar, he said, cost twice as much in Moscow as it did in Indianapolis. Ed even took in a ballet. He couldn't help laughing, he said, when he looked down from a box on Ambassador Kirk, who couldn't sit in a box because of the five Russians who were always trailing him. "He had to sit in the orchestra," said Ed, "because there...
...account only if ... it affords guidance to action." Today, his life is full of action, and it is hard for him to remember "that I am an old man." He remarried at 87 (his first wife died in 1927), and at 89 adopted two more children. In the past ten years he has published three books, is now at work on a fourth. "If it is better to travel than to arrive," he says, "it is because traveling is a constant arriving, while arrival that precludes further traveling is most easily attained by going to sleep or dying...