Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Last week members of Local 10 piled 2,500 strong into San Francisco's Coliseum Bowl for a third and final try. Harry Bridges, currently appealing a perjury conviction which may cost him five years in prison, stood up to make a maudlin appeal: "The FBI are waiting to pick me up after this meeting,"* he shouted, "and before they do I want to make a statement of policy." But Harry's longshoremen would have none of him. They shouted and booed him, then roared overwhelming approval of a resolution which said: "We go on record without...
...ally of O'Dwyer's latest political enemy, Borough President John Cashmore, was carrying on a "war of nerves" against the police department. Furthermore, the investigation reflected on the administration of Mayor William O'Dwyer. The word went out to New York's police to make Captain Flynn's funeral a gesture of defiance to the prosecutor...
Dead at the Throttle. At the burning Taejon railroad station, a locomotive engineer who had been tooting his whistle frantically throughout the early hours of the fighting finally decided to make a break for it; his train got through, but a hospital train that tried to re-enter the city later, to take out the wounded, was driven off. The engineer was shot dead at the throttle...
...lines south of the city. More were doubtless lost but still alive in the surrounding hills. One sergeant had wandered for 33 miles through the hills in his bare feet. An Arkansas lieutenant showed up clad only in his shorts. But many of Taejon's defenders did not make it at all. Among the missing: TIME Correspondent Wilson Fielder (see PRESS...
...observers have blamed the CC group for much of the inefficiency of Chiang's regime. Key figure in the reform drive was Formosa's able governor K. C. Wu, former mayor of Chungking and of Shanghai. Said Wu recently: "I am determined to eradicate corruption [and] to make the island as secure internally as the military men are going to make it from the outside...