Word: wente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pisco John and the lights went out together as the 18th Amendment came...
...metropolitan area and, at their invitation, Mrs. Lawrence came to New York City a few weeks ago to demonstrate her invention. She is an alert, attractive, grey-haired grandmother who shoots golf in the 80s and sings in her church choir. A native of Hartwell, Mo. she went to school and to business college in Fort Scott, Kans., attended a dressmaking school in Chicago, and was married in 1916. Her only child, a daughter, is married and has three children...
...Target. After the peace, he became the central figure in the vicious interservice feuding. It was he who urged and brought about a compromise federation; merger went through, largely because of the tacit understanding that Forrestal would be appointed to run it. Then, as Secretary of Defense, he found that his own authority under the compromise was not enough to bring order and direction from the bitter wrangling...
...Medina spoke up as soon as the prosecutor sat down: the Government had presented such a strong prima facie case that he would hear only limited argument on defense motions. He added that an hour would probably be ample. The five defense attorneys scrambled to their feet and went into an outraged act which would have done credit to a pond full of Donald Ducks. They danced, shouted and demanded a week's time to prepare briefs. One attorney made 13 separate motions. Defendant Eugene Dennis (who is acting as his own attorney) railed against the court...
Wheelwright's father, a resident of Danvers, told Secret Service agent Manrice R. Allen that his son "was a good boy before he went into the Army, but he was changed when he got home." The son is no longer living with his family, the father said: he maintains an apartment in Greenwich Village, New York City...