Word: adding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During his primary campaign, New York's Congressman Ham Fish was linked to jailed Bundist Fritz Kuhn in a newspaper ad. The ad was paid for by a committee headed by Playwright Maxwell Anderson. Promptly Ham Fish sued for $250,000 libel. Sniffed Anderson: "It is his practice to bring suits during a campaign, make a big howl about them and then drop them quietly when the campaign is over." Last week, the campaign over (TIME, Aug. 14), Ham Fish quietly dropped his suit...
Within a week the Russians had ad vanced 125 miles, overrun 18.500 square miles, recovered all of Bessarabia, killed or captured 300,000 enemy troops. They were less than 60 miles from the Ploesti wells. 80 miles from Bucharest. In addition, their molnia...
Last week Joseph M. Cummings, a Honolulu machinery dealer, ran a newspaper advertisement headlined: WHERE OUTLAW PROSTITUTES LIVE IN HONOLULU.The ad named residential areas, including Waikiki, exclusive ManulaniHeights and St. Louis Heights, and listed the number of prostitutes whohad homes in each...
...Distinction. In the Fairmont, W. Va. Times, a help-wanted ad ran: "Girl or lady for housekeeper, not over 35 years. To stay nights...
...began. He took a beating when he tried to make trouble for Dominion Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King by calling an election on the issue of provincial rights in wartime. This time he shrewdly capitalized on Quebec's dislike of war, conscription, beat Liberal Premier Adélard Godbout...