Word: washes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boston court, George C. Halkett testified that he had found his wife with another man but did nothing about it because the man was a lodge brother. In Chicago, Mrs. Jewel L. Maloney won a divorce after complaining that her husband had reneged on his promise to wash the dishes, make the beds, do the housecleaning. In San Francisco, Mrs. Margaret E. Dayton, who complained that her husband constantly made her eat venison, won a divorce on the ground of cruelty...
Last week, as in every October, Wenatchee's streets were crowded with roving apple pickers. The "apple sheds"-where machines wash, scrub, dry and sort the fruit-ran full blast. Long lines of yellow refrigerator cars waited along the blue Columbia River; at night the switch engines, making up fruit trains, hammered their echoes off the high barren ridge across the river...
Good Neighbor necessities changed Cordell Hull's tune on expropriation. By 1941, the U.S. had to make a face-saving deal to wash out the rest of its oil mess at a payment by Mexico of $24,000,000 plus interest-a metaphysical figure arrived at by a joint two-man commission of experts.* Last week the State Department announced that Mexico, now fat with U.S. dollars, had made final arrangements to settle its debt in full. With the final annual payment in September 1947, Mexico will own all U.S. oil properties outright for a total...
Removals. In Rosalia, Wash., H. C. Roberts, who had already got rid of a corn by cutting off his little toe, got rid of another by cutting off his other little toe. In St. Augustine, Fla., somebody finally got the nickels from a Florida East Coast Railway pay toilet by making off with the door...
Punishment? Public indignation bubbled up in Detroit. Congressman Paul W. Shafer called the verdict a "farce," a "travesty" and "disgustingly inadequate." The Detroit Free Press called it a "white wash" and "an insult to the fighting forces." The Detroit Times said "it will smell to heaven," and went back 131 years to find a local parallel of military shame when "the coward Hull surrendered De troit to the British without even swinging a punch...