Word: non
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deputy who did nothing about the "fixer." Unhappily for Sheriff Pollack, public indignation was not appeased. "In the interest of law and order in Erie County," the Buffalo Evening News last week proposed that the New York Legislature let Erie County elect no more sheriffs, perhaps substitute a non-political employe under Civil Service. Buffalo and Erie County have come a long way since 1872. Their sheriff then was Grover Cleveland, who later was to be called the only U. S. President who ever hanged...
Tall, grey Richard Lee Strout, Washington correspondent of the Christian Science Monitor, and editor of Maud, 1939 non-fiction bestseller, is well and widely acquainted in the Capital. Correspondent Strout even knows inaccessible, flinty, old (77) James Clark McReynolds, lonesome last conservative on the U. S. Supreme Court (TIME, Dec. 4). Last week Newshawk Strout, striding through last-minute Christmas shopping, encountered the hawk-faced Justice in a toy store off Pennsylvania Avenue. After an exchange of season's greetings, Reporter Strout probed: buying gifts for others? No, said Justice McReynolds-a gift for himself. To a clerk...
...Benito Mussolini was caught bluffing with his Nazi-Fascist "Pact of Steel," and when the Allies called his bluff, II Duce rather awkwardly last fall backed down and declared "non-belligerency." Grumbling at home last autumn and a major shake-up among his top officers indicated that Mussolini's Italy had to do a lot of sail-trimming. > After seven years of Franklin Roosevelt, the U. S. was still in the dumps, offered no example to the rest of the world as to how to get along. Best Roosevelt deeds of 1939 Were his earnest but unheeded plumpings...
...easy-moving figure appeared at the gai-musho (Foreign Office). For an hour the Ambassador and Foreign Minister were closeted. Shortly after the interview ended, a happy communiqué was issued indicating "progress." Spokesman Summa summed up the talk with a confident double negative: "There will not be a non-treaty situation between Japan and the U. S." But it appeared that Japan would have to offer more than the Yangtze promise...