Word: trail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...C.I.O.'s Phil Murray (Gemini) for "a churning year," Crooner Frank Sinatra (Sagittarius) for "increased power." Things were not going so well-astrology-wise-with Generalissimo Stalin (Sagittarius). The current opposition of Uranus to the Sun in Stalin's chart pointed inexorably toward the end of his trail, certainly...
Kansas authorities began combing the countryside for a quiet man who drove a 1934 Ford sedan. When the trail led to John Byers, they found it hard to believe that he was a bank robber. He had lived frugally, worked hard, first as a pumping-station oiler, then as a fireman on the Sante For Railroad, during all his years of crime. But police found money sacks hidden in his garage. In bed in the Spears Clinic lay his son, still paralyzed, still getting expensive treatment. Last week John Byers confessed, was taken off to Fort Scott County Jail...
...Manhattan last week, apartment hunters followed a newspaper ad which offered 2½-room cooperative apartments in a "new development" with "elevator, steam heat, Frigidaires." The trail led to a grimy old six-story tenement with an assessed value of $15,000, in a run-down neighborhood off First Avenue. The modern apartments existed only on a set of architect's plans, the building was not open for inspection, the work of remodeling had not yet started. But the owner easily sold 14 apartments for $3,500 each, and the monthly carrying charges were far above rents prevailing...
...most remarkable. "War . . . is forever renounced as a means of dealing with other nations. The maintenance of land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be authorized." Prime Minister Shidehara and the Tokyo press called on other nations to follow Japan down the sawdust trail. Said Asahi importantly: "World peace cannot be maintained by the unilateral act of Japan alone...
Twelve days after Jimmy Byrnes published what he vowed was Yalta's last secret agreement, New York Times Correspondent Herbert L. Matthews got on the trail of what he thought was another one in Rome. He said "an unimpeachable source" had seen the text of a secret agreement by which Roosevelt and Churchill had committed the U.S. and Britain to repatriate by force all those who did not want to return to their former homes in Soviet territory. Matthews wrote...