Word: downs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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No Surrender. Hotheads along the riverbank cried that the ground had been "salted," began talking wildly of seeking someone to lynch. But who? Nobody had gained by the strike but the bush pilots, and none of the gold seekers believed a bush pilot was capable of such villainy. Some guessed...
In a chartered bus, rumpled Candidate Dulles rode up & down the state, talking conversationally to small groups of people in the small cities and the small towns. Incidentally he argued how important he thought it was for him to go back to the Senate ("I am the most formidable single...
"Galloping Backward." Indignantly, the Democratic Party took up the challenge. With a pearl-grey fedora planted symmetrically on his grey-fringed head 71-year-old Herbert Lehman, Dulles' opponent, stumped the state. A Wall Streeter himself* for ten years (1933-43), an able governor of New York, Candidate Lehman...
Last week Tussaud's was shaken; their reputation for accuracy was at stake; if Stalin was too tall, they stood prepared to cut him down. Said Randolph Churchill, wartime liaison officer with Yugoslav guerrillas, "Having seen both Tito and Stalin, I would have no hesitation in asserting that Stalin...
Retribution. Tomoyuki Yamashita, "Tiger of Malaya" and conqueror of Singapore, climbed down from a Philippine mountaintop on Sept. 2, 1945 to surrender to the Americans. From Tokyo, Supreme Allied Commander MacArthur ordered his immediate trial as a war criminal. Some 60,000 Filipinos and Americans had suffered and died in...