Word: ups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Davis and friends piled into a car and rolled north on Lenox Avenue to address another gathering. An aroused, noisy crowd, some carrying torches, formed behind two blaring sound trucks and marched along Lenox after them. Ten policemen, who had let the parade form, got to worrying about possible trouble...
It was the moment Henry Blackmer had put off for 25 years. His fists clenched, the half-blind, old oil millionaire last week stood up for sentencing in a Denver courtroom. The man who fled to France in 1924 to avoid questioning in the Teapot Dome oil scandal had voluntarily...
"Therefore, I do not believe the ends of justice would be served by sentencing the defendant to jail," said the judge. Instead he fined Blackmer $20,000. Blackmer's attorney whipped out two $10,000 cashier's checks, drawn on a New York bank, and paid the fine...
The Magic of Action. In Paris for three days, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe met to discuss the recommendations which the Council's Assembly had sent up last summer (TIME, Aug. 15 et seq.). By unanimous vote, the ministers approved the admission of the West...
No Magic In Union. In the U.S. a belief was growing that 1) all of West Europe's economic ills would cease overnight if integration could be brought about; 2) what held up integration was the cussed stubbornness and shortsightedness of European politicians. The view did not fit the...