Word: townes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then last week, at the loth annual C.I.O. convention in Portland, Ore., a rejuvenated, shouting Murray sent the Reds scampering for cover like scared rats. Lee Pressman was in town, but as far as most of the delegates knew, he might have spent the time hiding under a bed. It looked as if the C.I.O. was free at last to put up an honest, strictly trade-unionist front...
...Bettelli of Los Angeles put the late Mark Hellinger's armored car up for sale. The automobile, a 1931 Lincoln eight-cylinder, custom-built town sedan, has one-inch bulletproof glass, armored sides and roof, and has a secret machine-gun compartment. The price...
...will fill orders for the in-town contests in order of application, unless overcrowding at Yale or Dartmouth games should occur. In that event, some system similar to the fall priority setup will be used...
...Newman found praise in his mailbox too. The managing editor of the Bayonne, N. J., Times sent a letter applauding Newman's position. So did a building construction man in Baltimore, Md., a South Orange, N. J., housewife, and a Presbyterian minister from a small town in New York State...
...Granary, named for the town granary which stood where Park Street Church is now located, had its share of troubles. In the old days, underground springs used to fill up the graves with water from time to time, causing the Town Fathers endless drainage worries. And then there were Captain Adino Paddock's elms. Captain Paddock decided Old Granary needed to be dressed up, so he imported 16 elm trees from England and planted them along the cemetery. They were his pride and joy, but unfortunately the youths of Boston town could not resist swinging on the limbs. The Captain...