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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...time greatest vote getter, Democratic Senator Ed Johnson, would turn. No friend of Carroll's and usually more inclined toward Gene Millikin's conservatism, Johnson had kept his own counsel. Republican leaders were hoping that Johnson would rest on his oars through the campaign, and thus indirectly help Republican Millikin...
...empire that Gangster Al Capone had built with the help of the Tommy gun and the dum-dum bullet in the back had a strange air of flaccid respectability in 1950. Marty the Ox died in bed without a single bullet hole in his hide. And in the rare places where the shakedown still prevailed, it was costing a merchant as little as $1 a week to insure his plate-glass windows against a well-heaved brick. The ugly libel was afloat that Chicago had turned sissy and petty larcenous...
...political repercussions were even hotter. Acting Mayor Vincent Impellitteri-who moved into City Hall when Mayor William O'Dwyer prudently went off to be Ambassador to Mexico-was obviously praying that the scandal would help him get elected for good in November. The appointment of Murphy was a feather in his cap. But he had plenty of competition...
...tricky Reds infiltrated U.S. lines at night, or by day disguised as white-clad peasants, and shot up U.S. positions from the flank and rear. The Kum line could not be held. The U.S. 1st Cavalry Division and the 25th Infantry Division arrived from Japan to help the battered 24th, and Lieut. General Walton Walker was appointed MacArthur's ground cornmander in Korea. The Americans fell back from Taejon to Kumchon, the next important junction on the rail and road line to Pusan...
...bloody battles, the U.S. beat back a massive enemy thrust at Taegu and shrank or wiped out the Red bridgeheads across the Naktong River. On the east coast, the South Koreans lost Pohang, regained it after U.S. reinforcements sped to help them...