Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Diminishing Returns. In Mt. Carmel, Ill., the burglar who stole 35? from the American Legion Clubhouse bowling alley, dropped a dollar on his way...
Dropping into the White House for a visit, New York Star Publisher Bartley Crum asked: "By the way, Mr. President, what exactly made you decide to run?" Glancing around the room, Harry Truman replied with a grin: "Where would I ever find another house like this?" This tidbit was reported by a gossip columnist last week. But by last week it was apparent that it would take more than wisecracks to keep Candidate Truman from househunting next winter...
When he turned up in Manhattan early last week for the funeral of onetime Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, Tom Dewey had only one brief comment on his campaign. He promised newsmen that when it got under way, it would be "rugged and extensive...
...Alice Coachman, 25, the Georgia Negro who won the women's Olympic high jump, received an enthusiastic, if well segregated, reception on her return to her native state. She rode in a parade of automobiles from Atlanta to her home in Albany, and crowds cheered along the way. In her home town, prominent citizens gathered on the stage of the auditorium, whites on the right, Negroes on the left, to pay her honor. Mayor James W. ("Taxi") Smith eulogized her in a short speech...
...bombs went off but did not know how to stop them from going off (see cut). Dr. Daniel Q. Posin, professor of physics at North Dakota Agricultural College, had nothing very startling to say about The Bomb. He was newsworthy merely because when he said it he looked the way a lot of people felt...