Word: valjean
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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People who sweat out an ordinary, humdrum existence make up a world ever at war with "night people." This is the opinion advanced by a late-hour New Jersey disk jockey named Jean (after Victor Hugo's Jean Valjean) Shepherd, 33, whose burgeoning radio audience (estimated at 400,000) is largely a cult of Shepherd zealots...
...relentlessly as Inspector Javert dogged Jean Valjean, the Justice Department has dogged the steps of the Aluminum Co. of America. When Alcoa was acquitted of monopoly charges in 1941, the trustbusters appealed their case. Four years later, an appeals court found that Alcoa had, indeed, been a monopoly before the war but it withheld judgment on Alcoa's postwar status until all Government-owned aluminum plants were disposed...