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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soft Music. The hero of the Reichstag trial was ailing and growing old. On public occasions he rouged his cheeks to appear younger. Last April, he left his job as Premier of Bulgaria, went to Russia to "rest." There were the usual rumors of liquidation, but he seemed to be really ill. Last week, Moscow announced that he had died of diabetes in a sanitarium near the Russian capital. The body lay in state in Moscow; the Russian radio added that music played softly while "thousands & thousands of the working people" filed past Dimitrov's casket...
...orders from Comrade Williams, the miners struck June 27. Australia's Laborite Prime Minister Joseph B. Chifley, veteran of many a railway walkout, was jolted out of Australia's usual tolerance of communism. For the first time, Chifley denounced the Communists, and his government hurriedly drafted an emergency bill that would prevent unions from using their funds to support strikes called during arbitration proceedings. Most of Australian labor supported the bill. It passed without dissent. Cried Labor M.P. Leslie Haylen: "Reds act here as in Berlin. They choose the depth of a hard winter to try and suborn...
...heavy favorite, Ted Schroeder of California had no reason to be jittery, but as usual he was. As he took the court for the Wimbledon singles finals last week, he nodded awkwardly toward the royal box, where Queen Mary sat watching, instead of bending in the customary bow. Then Schroeder devoted his full attention to stocky, left-handed Jaroslav Drobny of Czechoslovakia across...
Baumann, who lives in Des Moines, is optimistic about the commercial value of his wingless fowl. "Wings on a chicken," he declares, "are obsolete. The airplane characteristics of the usual chicken are a nuisance." His wingless chickens do not have to be confined by high wire fences, because their ceiling is about two feet. They are nice and quiet too, and the roosters don't fight much. They "dress -out" beautifully, says Baumann, "with white meat where the wings are on other birds. These chickens are the nearest thing to a schmoo of anything alive...
...usual, carefully controlled elections assured the continued power of Dictator Salazar...