Word: louise
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In St. Louis, the acquittal of a Negro from extortion charges aroused such enthusiasm among 125 spectators that the judge sentenced them to remain quietly seated for one hour.
The Junior League has a spineless program; it overrates the importance of its 35,000 membership ("More than that number attend a Joe Louis fight"); the League is nothing but a prep school for the Daughters of the American Revolution; Leaguers play around the fringes of social work; they spend...
Tall, gaunt Mrs. Hughes Easley, wife of a disabled electrical worker in St. Louis and the mother of eight, was elected "Mrs. Unemployed American Mother." Her family food allowance: $58.85 a month. Rent allowance: $10. Mrs. Roosevelt was invited to sit next Mrs. Easley at a reliefer's dinner...
At 6:58 p.m. on May 14, The Netherlands was told she had capitulated to her first "protector" since Napoleon Bonaparte set up his brother Louis as her King in 1806.
To fill Mandel's place at the Ministry of Colonies, the Premier shifted Louis Rollin from the Ministry of Commerce. As new Minister of Commerce he chose Leon Barety, an exponent of closer relations with Italy. To the key post of permanent Secretary General of Foreign Affairs, since 1933...