Word: posts
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Post (Election] Script...
...best post-election crack we've heard, out here, came from a onetime Democrat who said: "Well, us Democrats took a hell of a beating, didn't we-thank God!" CHET SCHWARZKOPF Eureka, Calif...
...Michael V. DiSalle, 42, yam-shaped Democratic mayor of Toledo, was named to the $16,000-a-year, trouble-laden post of price stabilizer. No businessman, Lawyer DiSalle had made a good record as chairman of Toledo's Labor-Management-Citizens Committee (The Toledo Plan) that has minimized the city's labor trouble for five years; he had the endorsement of Toledo's industrialists and the good will of labor leaders for the price-stabilizing...
...last week the onetime U.S. Communist chieftain seemed happy again. When he heard that a bench warrant had been issued in Washington for his arrest on a charge of contempt of Congress, he paid his own way to the capital to surrender to authorities. He refused to post $1,500 bail-he was, he said, too broke to do so. Couldn't his friends raise the money? Fifty-nine-year-old Earl Browder smiled, puffed contentedly at his pipe, and said he had no intention of asking anyone for help...
...court martial for "misbehavior before the enemy" was swift and crushing. After a three-day trial at a command post 200 yards behind the front lines, Leon Gilbert became the first U.S. soldier in Korea sentenced to die for panicking under fire...