Word: name
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Call Me Patton. George soon became a familiar figure in Miami's upholstered nightclubs and casinos. He changed his name to Patton, although he was known around town as "George the Greek." Despite his new-found affluence, nobody bothered to invite George when the Kefauver crime investigating committee visited Miami last spring. But when the Dade County grand jury met, George was on hand. Nobody really expected a smart boy like George to talk; it was a matter of routine. But for some reason, George entered the grand jury room and began to sing. Before he was through...
...committee in Washington and for an hour and 55 minutes repeated his story coolly, if not enthusiastically. He told how as a patrolman he and his buddies had shaken down nightclubs and gin mills for allowing them to stay open after hours. Now & then, he sprinkled in a big name or two. At one point he recalled hearing that a wealthy oilman named Sinclair (presumably Harry Sinclair of Teapot Dome notoriety) had lost $800,000 in two nights at the Golden Shores gambling club, and had later settled the debt...
...London last week a British Overseas Airways Stratocruiser stood waiting, bathed in floodlights. Prime Minister Clement Attlee, wearing a sprig of white heather in his lapel, told newsmen that he was "soberly optimistic" about the prospects of his forthcoming meeting with President Truman. Then the airplane, which bore the name Cathay, took off for Washington, carrying Attlee toward a conference which he hoped would prevent a war with Communist China. With him, the plane carried the hopes & fears of most of western Europe...
...light snow fell on Pyongyang, drifting down past boarded shop fronts on the city's main street. The Communists had once named this thoroughfare for Stalin, and now, after an absence of 40-odd days, they would probably so name it again...
...lived in a Peking palace and he stood, by able and accurate proxy, at Lake Success defying and denouncing the United Nations. His armies were giving the most powerful nation on earth the worst beating in its military history. The proud and ancient chancelleries of Europe quavered at his name and shrank from his power. Washington was paralyzed by the blow he had delivered and by the prospect of world revolution and disintegration that lay ahead...