Word: weekend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rest of the Crimson's travelling G-2 staff watched Army and Dartmouth over the weekend. Bill Barclay spent his second straight Saturday at Michie Stadium, where the Black Knights mangled Lafayette. Elmer Madar went south to Philadelphia to get a preliminary line on Dartmouth...
Getting back to work after a fine autumn weekend, the U.S. people read the big black headlines. The U.S. and its Western allies had broken off the Berlin negotiations with Russia. An American white paper set forth the long and dreary record of Russian stubbornness, stalling and duplicity. Was war really imminent? The answer was somewhere between no and maybe (see INTERNATIONAL...
...Ingram, Negro actor who played "De Lawd" in the movie version of Green Pastures, was picked up in Manhattan for violation of the Mann Act. The charge: importing a 15-year-old white high-school sophomore from Salina, Kans., for a weekend in New York (Rex had made the plane reservation for her, and she had given the family the slip by telling them that she was going shopping in Topeka). When the 53-year-old actor heard that he might be taken back to Kansas City for trial, he cried: "But I don't want...
...Over the weekend I cleaned out my desk, and I found three things that reminded me of three other things. These were the three I found a brasaring, a page about Herodetus torn out from a Colleges Outline Sevics, and a bluebook containing a German hour exam with D written on the outside and I ask you, wasn't that Chipper Gannon something to see moving down the field? Wasn't that something pretty...
...said that I'm not sophisticated when it comes to politics, so usually I keep my mouth shut. But every so often I can't hold back any longer. Like now. I have here before me a little release the Democratic National Committee sent to the press over the weekend. It insists that the Democratic Party "is in complete agreement" with a number of things Dewey has said. Things such as these: "Our streams should abound with fish," (Denver, Sept. 21); "Everybody that rides in a car or bus uses gasoline and oil," (also in Denver); "You know that your...