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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...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...
Reports from the conference said that brilliant U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson had never been more brilliant. He did not, however, persuade the French to give up their opposition to arming Western Germany. At no point did the U.S. publicly and with finality tell the French what sensible French politicians would have liked to hear: the U.S. was not going to embark on a pointless effort to rearm Western Europe unless the French agreed that the Germans be allowed to have their own defenses against the U.S.S.R...
Closest competition in expected from King's Point Merchant Marine Academy. Among other teams racing will be Ohio State and George Washington University...
After a race riot, in which colored gangs jump the gun and attack the whites on their own ground, an autopsy proves the doctor innocent. Biddle is unconvinced. This stalemate is the point, and the logical climax, of the film. As the action continues, with Biddle's vendetta against the doctor, the characters resolve into more familiar type-patterns: the man who hates Negroes because he himself was involved, the doctor who must treat the man he hates. But the ending is still inconclusive. The doctor has won his life, others have died, but nothing has been changed...
...dispute which simmered for several weeks last year about whether 1950 or 1951 marks the mid-century point, has started again. Nor is this sort of argument a new thing. One of the few defeats that Kaiser Willhelm H of Germany ever suffered before he blundered into the first wolrld war occurred when a board of scientists reversed an imperial dictum proclaiming that the year 1900 was the beginning of the twentieth century. The experts told the Kaiser that he had a year to wait...