Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tuck all the way. With all 48 states accounted for, Gabrielson and Beck were locked solid 45 votes to 45. Alaska's one vote put Beck ahead. Then Gabrielson went into the lead with two votes each from the District of Columbia, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. Before the final vote was announced, one Nebraska committeeman switched his vote to give Gabrielson a bare majority...
Next day Stefan quit his job and the union sent its men back to work. Said his brother, bitterly: "I had hoped to show Eugene our American heart and our American way of living. I have been here for 37 years and I never saw anything like this...
Voluntary Suspect. The curiosity gave way to horror and indignation 17 days later Cricket's bruised, partly clothed body had been found in a shallow grave on a mesa twelve miles from town. Happy Apodaca announced that she had been raped and murdered. No autopsy was held. Cricket was just sprinkled with lime and buried again. But Happy did take action-of a sort...
After that a group of hotheaded ranchers were all for dealing with the sheriff and some of his political friends "in the good old Western way." They were dissuaded. But students from nearby New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts held a mass meeting, passed around a petition, managed to get a grand jury called. The jury began laying about with a trumpeting, trunk-swinging fury...
...Quite Necessary?" Both Adenauer, in his smooth and sibilant manner, and Schumacher, in his sharp and strident way, railed at Allied "interference" in German affairs and especially at dismantling of German industrial plants. One-armed, one-legged Schumacher had to be helped up onto the rostrum (see cut), but his rhetoric was as vigorous as ever. Cried he last week: "The Allies have no right to condemn the entire German people because of Naziism. All European nations were for a time Nazi followers. Western EuroDe continued to conclude treaties with Hitler at a period when hundreds of thousands of German...