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Beside a Quonset hut at Kimpo Airport, more than 100 tired, unshaven infantrymen lolled in the dust, waiting patiently for planes that would take them to Tokyo. For some, Tokyo meant the first leg of the trip home. For others it meant only a temporary break in the dirty business...
Two Moves & a Jump. But it was later than Tom Pendergast thought. In three months the State moved in, and Bill Boyle was no longer police director. He moved over to the Pendergast redoubt at City Hall, became commissioner of street cleaning. A reform mayor fired him in 1940, and...
The committee hears complaints about food, runs rallies, supervises elections, and sees to it that dances are held. One of the pleas presented to it last year was an appeal for the Union to avoid serving onion soup before dances. Others wanted beer at supper instead of milk.
But Lithofold Corp. had some good friends-of-friends. One was ex-RFCer Merl (Mink Coat) Young, who phoned Alexander from Washington that "the Democratic National Committee is interested in this loan." Another was James Finnegan, St. Louis Collector of Internal Revenue and crony of the President. Finnegan added his...
As King, Baudouin will continue to do his chores, with his life even more carefully circumscribed: he will sign state documents, listen interestedly but noncommittally to politicians' special pleas, deliver speeches carefully edited by others. The Belgian constitution states that "no Royal Act is valid unless countersigned by a...