Word: thats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pilot Claude, Copilot Lewis, their flight engineer and 15 of the Aztec's 41 passengers escaped from the white-hot pyre. When the wreckage had cooled, an American Airlines ground crewman stood sobbing as he kept count, in a little black notebook, of the bodies carried from the blackened...
Everybody in Kansas knew that Governor Frank Carlson wanted the job himself, but he knew no acceptable way to take it; to make himself a U.S. Senator would be to break a contract with Kansas voters. So for a month Governor Carlson had dillydallied over choosing a successor for the...
Handsome, 54-year-old Harry Darby was as Republican as Kansas itself. A national committeeman, he turned down the national chairmanship this year, before it was handed to New Jersey's Guy Gabrielson. Darby wrenched control of Kansas' Republican delegation from Alf Landon last year and led it...
Harry Darby was not interested in staying a Senator long. "I have never been a candidate for elective office," he explained, "and this appointment doesn't change my mind on that." At the end of next year, when his term ends, Senator Darby will bow out and let Governor...
Then the jurors-all twelve of them women-retired. They were back, after less than two hours of deliberation, with a verdict that stunned the court: not guilty.