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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nominated in the Bond. In Paris, Tenn., Earl Underbill, in jail for auto stealing, and Robert Jackson, in jail for forgery, offered to marry the first two girls who would put up $3,000 bail fof their release...
Looking back over the record of our coverage of Dubinsky and the I.L.G.W.U., I was interested to find that TIME'S first mention of them occurred two decades ago. Those two decades cover all but six years of the span of TIME itself. In its Aug. 19, 1929 issue youthful TIME took note of David Dubinsky for the first time. He was then acting president of I.L.G.W.U. The story gave an account of his efforts to raise a $250,000 bond issue to finance a strike of 45,000 Manhattan dressmakers. From that time on, as Dubinsky...
Unavailing was the argument of the Senate economizers that there was plenty of logic in the measure: only the department involved could know enough about itself to know where it could economize. A majority present (49 to 28) voted for the economy resolution. But because a two-thirds majority is necessary to suspend the rules (writing legislation into an appropriation bill is against the rules), the resolution died...
After that he leaned back, fired up a big black cigar and invited the committee to do its worst. In two days of questioning him it made almost no real effort to shake his denials or probe his failure to recollect details...
...five men and two women walked in casually and sat down. A few minutes later Barsov appeared with Pirogov. A waitress started toward them. One of the men reached out, seized her firmly by the arm and told her not to move. The seven rose. One tapped Barsov on the shoulder. "Immigration officers," he said. They hustled the Russians into the street...