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Attlee came as close as he ever does to flourishing his fist in the enemy's face. Said he in answer to the Tories' meeting 170 miles to the south at Wolverhampton...
Flashbulbs popped. General Vaughan shook his fist under a photographer's nose and bellowed: "How would you like a punch in the nose?" The photographer suggested it would be a mistake-for Vaughan. "After all," snapped forthright Harry Vaughan, "I am the President's military aide. You guys will want favors at the White House some...
...Park, white swimmers drifted back to the locker room in sullen anger when the first Negroes splashed into the outdoor pool. Outside the pool fence, a mob of some 200 teen-agers collected. Police arrived in time to escort the Negroes safely from the park. But all that afternoon fist fights blazed up; Negro boys were chased and beaten by white gangs. In the gathering dusk, one grown-up rabble-rouser spoke out. "Want to know how to take care of those niggers?" he shouted. "Get bricks. Smash their heads, the dirty, filthy...
...Toronto voters were baffled by the issues in this week's general election, they had only their newspapers to blame. Not since the days of fist-swinging personal journalism had they known anything like the political news served up during the campaign by the city's evening papers, the Liberal Star (circ. 362,193) and the Tory Telegram (circ...
From the other end of the line spoke Florida's Claude Pepper. In Taft's mellow old age, he predicted, Taft would remember with more pleasure his support of federal housing, education, medical aid, "than he will recall his Herculean success in putting the retarding fist of his power in the face of the multitudes struggling up the ladder of life to enjoy a few of the satisfactions to which the fortunate were born...