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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alexei Kryshkov, got 11½ years, plus the "loss of civil rights" for four years. He had confessed to writing reports for the Soviet embassy in Belgrade which were afterwards used in Radio Moscow's anti-Tito broadcasts. The only woman defendant, Ksenia Komad, got the lightest sentence-three years. The prosecution claimed that she had been Kryshkov's mistress, charged her with wartime collaboration with the Germans...
Turning on the Motors. After a month of such stumping, Gonzalez' coalition of Radicals, Liberals and Conservatives was properly aroused and ready to slap down the plotters whoever they might be. Leaders of the three parties answered his call for a conference. Affable and confident, his dignity regained, Gonzalez now talked not of plots but of the peso. He wanted everybody's help, he explained, on a plan to save Chile's world markets by revaluing the peso and at the same time keep living costs down by clapping on new taxes and controls...
Arriving in Manhattan, Playwright-Actor Noel Coward appeared to be in a grave, no-nonsense mood befitting his years (50 this week). Undismayed that his last three plays have been failures in London, he told the New York Times: "I shall write new comedies, for I have a great wit and I am a gifted man as well as being a very hard worker...
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky left New York aboard a U.S. ship, bound for his homeland after almost three months in New York as chief of the Soviet delegation to the U.N. His parting tip to three porters who carried his mountain of luggage aboard: $40. His parting words on shipboard: "I want to wish all the 'American people a Happy New Year...
...prove that its shocking picture of the electrocution of Gunman James Morelli three weeks ago was no fake, the Chicago Herald-American last week uncorked a full page of photos explaining how the trick was done. As pressroom gossips had suspected, Herald-American Photographer Joe Migon had pulled back the lining of his shoe, chiseled a hole in the heel big enough to hold a tiny (3 by 1 by ¾ in.) Minox camera, then concealed it with the lining. Migon had thus carried the camera undetected past the X-ray eyes of the Cook County jail "inspecto-scope," which...