Word: turning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Recruit working salesmen from such down-to-earth American manufacturers as Fuller Brush . . . Turn these salesmen loose in Germany and let them begin to export American products and American ideas. It is this sort of a blood transfusion Germany needs...
...Reader Trommer's is one version of an apocryphal story. According to another version, Capone's highjinks disturbed the sleep of J. C. Penney's house guest Herbert Hoover who, in turn, put Capone in jail. The solid facts are: 1) Penney's estate was on an island nearly a mile across the lagoon from Capone's; 2) Hoover was a house guest at the Penney estate in January 1929; 3) Miami police arrested Capone at least three times in April and May 1930 on charges of "being a public nuisance and source of annoyance...
They approached it amidst no new sensational disclosures. Instead, the trial in a Manhattan Federal Court took a quieter, tenser turn. FBI agents, in endless search, had followed countless trails from New York to Washington to Baltimore. They had dug through old files, turning up bills of sale, bank accounts, letters-even the fragmentary, casual conversations of years past, now of utmost importance. With these minutiae, Assistant U.S. Attorney Tom Murphy fought his duel with Alger and Priscilla Hiss and Defense Attorney Lloyd Stryker. With these minutiae, Murphy sought to convict Alger Hiss, once-bright star of the State Department...
...arrived in the U.S. from his native Germany and 44 years after he undertook his first public office (as a New York State assemblyman), 72 year-old Senator Robert F. Wagner said his farewell to politics. The famed old liberal, long disabled by the infirmities of age, wrote: "My turn has come to step down ... I have had my fair share of shining hours when the country approved my labors and when I saw the reforms for which I struggled so firmly established that many took them for granted...
...Good." The school in Siberia which had inculcated such thoughts and sentiments had begun bitterly. For two years the men were cold and hungry, worked unremittingly. Then the Russians eased up. For those who embraced Communism or at least paid lip service, living conditions took a sharp turn for the better. Recalled one repatriate: "I never had it so good. There was plenty to eat and the Russians were so easygoing...