Word: week
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year automobile business for bootlegging-and thereupon set in motion a relentless procession of events that led to his death. With a partner, Matt Kolb, he carved out an empire of suburban speakeasies, controlled a big slot-machine franchise, sold 18,000 bottles of illicit beer each week, boasted that he made $1,000,000 a year. He also made enemies: to Al Capone and his henchmen, Touhy was a natural rival and a menace. To Police Captain Daniel ("Tubbo") Gilbert, often called "the richest cop in the world," he was fair game in the Chicago guerrilla war. But Roger...
...unmistakable rumbling voice of U.M.W. President John Llewellyn Lewis: "When are you going to lock up the page forms of the next edition?" The editor said the following Monday. Replied John L.: "Well, I may have something for you. I'll let you know." Hours before presstime last week, John L. Lewis sent over a letter that gave the Journal-and most U.S. newspapers-a headline: JOHN L. LEWIS RESIGNS...
Early one morning last week, when the other valley towns were canopied with lights and tinsel, a big trailer truck lumbered past the great farms, turned into the chuckholed sandy roads of the drab alkali flat, and deposited its cargo on an empty lot. Ragged children and rheumy old men and women with babies shuffled over, and some men pushed forward and gently laid their hands on the new thing. The Rev. Mr. Daniels took off his hat, bowed his head and said: "Father, thank thee for this wonderful blessing...
...children this week there were few toys, little tinsel-only one Christmas tree (at the church) in the whole community. But the 300 Negroes of Teviston had a promise of bounty that seemed greater than all the growing things in the green valley: fresh water that would run to every house in Teviston from the deep well on the empty lot. And standing over the well like a monument, was the gift (sold at half price by one company, installed at no charge by another) that they had given to each other-the pride of the new Teviston Water District...
...with Tunisian President Bourguiba that the continued fighting in Algeria was "a cause of grave concern." When Secretary of State Herter, arriving in Paris, opened a courtesy call on French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville with the remark that "I have come to speak to you about this week's events," Couve put on the chill act: "I prefer myself to talk about last week and those events that have rather deteriorated relations between France...