Word: note
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Committee, headed by Vice President Nixon, invited executives from 13 international and local building-trades unions to a meeting to discuss dropping the color bar; only three showed up. Then it called a separate huddle with the leaders of Local 26; none showed up. Later, Nixon personally wrote a note to I.B.E.W. International President Gordon Freeman, admonished him to crack down on Local 26. Freeman did not answer...
...mantle that Marshal Lott aspires to is that of Getulio Vargas, the demagogic dictator-President who shot himself in 1954, leaving a note blaming his suicide on the pressure of "international financial groups." Last week, three days after leaving the War Ministry, Lott greeted a noisy convention to accept the nomination of Vargas' old Brazilian Labor Party (P.T.B.). "I am a nationalist," he said. "Nationalism is related to patriotism the way charity is to faith...
...Among them: The Uncanny Badger is a strange picture by John La Farge, a mural painter and stained-glass designer of renown who worked mostly in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. It was inspired by a trip to Japan with his famed friend, Historian-Biographer Henry Adams. In a note scribbled on the picture's back La Farge wrote: "With the Japanese, the badger is uncanny...
...married to a granddaughter of Queen Victoria, but neither his marriage nor his distinguished Royal Navy record was enough to save him. Hounded by the press and vilified by the public, he lasted only two months after the outbreak of the war before he penned a short and sad note to the First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill, offering to resign in the interests "of the great Service to which I have devoted my life." "In all the circumstances," replied Churchill, "you are right in your decision...
...Havelock Ellis, d) Albert Camus. 90. Died. Margaret Sullavan, 50, actress, who after death revealed a cause of her tragic behavior. She left: a) A note about her frustrations...