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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thomas Mellon faded into senility and Andy and R.B. ran the show. Andy-shy, diffident, frail, and pale-eyed, fingering his thin cigars; R.B.-hearty, affable, horsy, married to Jennie King, a lively lady who wore a red wig-two brothers quite unlike in most respects but exactly alike in their acquisitiveness and the accuracy of their financial calculations...
...town's traffic problem was slowly being untangled. Two weeks ago Governor Jim Duff presided over the dynamiting-through of a ¾-mile-long tunnel under Squirrel Hill, part of a highway which will carry traffic from the Pennsylvania Turnpike through the city and across the Monongahela towards the west...
This week he stood up in Denver's federal court to face the charges-four indictments for perjury, two for evasion of income tax-which had piled up during his long absence. His attorneys obviously expected an easy out. But Judge Orie L. Phillips insisted that he enter a plea of guilty to the income tax charges, took the perjury counts under advisement, and deferred judgment. Blackmer walked out slowly, lips pursed, black shoes squeaking and was driven away to his son's fashionable Cherry Hills mansion to nurse his hope of forgiveness a little longer...
Somber Spirits. One of the Assembly's grimmest moments came when Dr. T. F. Tsiang, representing Nationalist China's crumbling government, rose to speak. Said he: "During the past two years, while the dike from the Persian Gulf to Scandinavia was built against the flood of Communism, the Far East has been inundated . . . Can the United Nations maintain its prestige . . . by ignoring what has taken place in my country? . . . I appeal to the General Assembly to be brave enough to embrace the vision of one indivisible world and not to retreat to the false illusory security of half...
Rajk was vehement in his protestation of guilt: "I declare in advance that whatever the sentence may be, I shall consider it just." While the sentence was being read, Rajk stood between two grey-uniformed guards, his hands clasped behind his back; spectators close to him saw that he was digging his fingernails deep into the flesh. The verdict: death on the gallows for Rajk and two fellow defendants, life imprisonment for two more, nine years for another. Soldier Palffy will be sentenced separately by "a court-martial...