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...Washington's 24 delegates. Then the Eisenhower forces went to work. They turned up last week in Spokane with a solid majority of the state convention delegates. The Taft minority threatened to walk out and hold a rump convention of their own. After ten hours of the stormiest politicking the state could remember, the issue was settled by the Ike majority electing 20 delegates, granting 4 to Taft...
...Government continues to split movie studios from theater control. Even when the moviemakers are legally divorced from the theater owners, and probably for a long time thereafter, Hollywood is likely to favor the exhibitors as its best customers. But eventually, though many of the theaters will undoubtedly survive, the stormiest upheaval in entertainment history seems destined to bring the moviemakers to a prosperous peace with the enemy...
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 29--(APE)--One of the stormiest legal disputes in year threatened to tear the Supreme Court apart tonight as Justice Felix Frankfurter, former southpaw mound ace, threatened to resign from the nation's highest tribunal in protest of Chief Justice Vinson's ruling Thursday that Lionel "The Toy" Train was unconstitutional and could not play in yesterday's classic, won by the Crimson...
Fifty Days. On Friday the 13th, Berlin had weathered 50 days of siege. The stormiest wind and rain of the year whipped through the ruined city. Nevertheless, on that day the West's cargo planes flew in more than 2,000 tons.* At Tempelhof, a C-54 winged in & out of the overcast with a load of coal, overshot the field, crashed a fence, burst into flame. The two U.S. flyers got out safely through an emergency hatch-leaving the airlift's death toll still at five...
Outside the House of Commons another big blizzard snarled transport and set back recovery from The Crisis. But inside the chill Victorian-Gothic chamber, tempers were short and hot. The Mother of Parliaments, majestic but not stuffy, had one of her stormiest, most boisterous weeks in recent history. It went along like this...