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Wrote Denham bluntly: ". . . You have now seen fit to request my resignation forthwith. In obedience to your wishes I feel I must comply." In a stiff little note of reply, the President explained that he saw no prospect of restoring a "harmonious relationship" between Counsel Denham and the board. Harry Truman accepted the resignation as of the close of the following business...
Easy Prey. Forthwith Dingell introduced a bill making a Korean beer issue mandatory. Then the Blatz Brewing Co. of Milwaukee sent the Secretary of the Army a telegram offering 600,000 cans of beer absolutely free of charge. Not to be outdone, the Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co. offered several vatfuls of free beer, too. At that, Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin, president of the W.C.T.U., rose in Denver before the 76th convention of her sisterhood to launch a heated counterattack...
Setting their faces like flint, the judges forthwith ordered Longshoremen Leader Harry Bridges freed from the San Francisco jail where he had been held since Aug. 5 as a threat to U.S. security. The "erosive subversion," the court held, had been caused by the Government when it persuaded District Judge George B. Harris to revoke Bridges' bail and clap him in jail during his appeal of a five-year prison sentence for perjury. The Government had argued that Bridges, as a Communist, imperiled the U.S. war effort in Korea...
...touching display of loyalty, New York City's retiring Mayor O'Dwyer was rewarding a few public servants he will leave behind when he goes to Mexico as ambassador. The detective who had chauffeured the mayor's Cadillac was appointed Seventh Deputy Police Commissioner, forthwith applied for retirement on the $6,000-a-year pension of a commissioner. O'Dwyer's other driver and his bodyguard, $5,150-a-year detectives, were also appointed deputy police commissioners, entitled to the same melon-sized pensions. As for O'Dwyer's executive secretary, the mayor...
Startled President Quirino ordered that all military equipment in the hands of private individuals be seized forthwith. Early this month, the House of Representatives' committee on national defense investigated. Fifty-two-year-old Mrs. Planas, a willing witness, testified that she had bought the war materials legally from the Philippine Surplus Property Commission last October. But two other witnesses slightly changed the formidable picture of Mrs. Planas as a one-woman arsenal. Said her son Alberto: "My mother is a sick woman. There's really nothing in our depots that the army can use-just a pile...