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...case was prosaically listed ". . . Vashti McCollum v. Board of Education . . ." but it had some of the same features that made the Scopes "monkey trial" a sideshow of the '20s. And, though the decision would immediately affect only the citizens of Champaign...
That was all she had to say. Judge Clarke asked: "How did this affect...
...Russia's open backing of the anti-Government Tudeh Party. At Teheran's House of Russian Culture, a Tudeh member was recently permitted to make a savage attack on the Iranian Government. Nothing that happens in one part of the Near East can fail to affect the rest of that region, Russia's actions in Iran, especially taken together with her recent demands on Turkey, were important to more governments than Iran, more people than the Iranians...
...many a company, the V-E day cutbacks had come too late to affect quarterly earnings seriously. For others, excess profits taxes had been a cushion against the drop in gross sales. In top brackets, taxes drop as fast as income, thus help keep earnings steady...
Bill Jeffers was willing to overlook one honest mistake, but usually fired a man for his second. One day he fired his brother because he wasn't doing his job the way Bill Jeffers thought he should. Nor did Bill Jeffers' rise affect his father. Until he died some 13 years ago, old William Jeffers continued to work for the U.P. as a laborer who never earned more than $55 a month...