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Now the decision was in, handed down, surprisingly, on a Thursday afternoon. Monday is usually "judgment day" in the U.S. Supreme Court. But the opinions of the justices were written, and Chief Justice Fred Vinson knew they were too hot to keep from a watchful press.
In some cities, Government organizers in groups of three had gone from house to house at daybreak to round up voters, then marched them to the polls under the watchful eyes of armed soldiers, militia men and security police, who were guarding towns and roads as well as the polls...
But if the Hygiene Department is justified in withholding vaccinations, it cannot afford to point with pride at the empty beds in Stillman and dismiss the problem. If the charts are to be believed, a world already weakened by war stands on the threshold of another disastrous flu pandemic. The...
Up from a Nickel. In the beginning (and until 1901), Town & Country was the homely Home Journal, originally a newspaper-size nickel weekly. Its founders were Nathaniel Willis, the man who helped make European travel fashionable, and George P. Morris, the man who wrote Woodman, Spare That Tree. For the...
Below decks were 1,740 refugees, the human jetsam tossed up by two wars and their attendant revolutions and hatreds. Some were pro-Soviet Russians who had been imprisoned by the Germans; some were White Russians with Nansen passports; some were Bulgarians, Rumanians, Poles who turned to Russia when the...