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...decorated Inquirer office, where he sits in front of a small bronze plaque engraved with the words: "Cause my works on earth to reflect honor on my father's memory." One memory of his father, the late Moses L. ("Moe") Annenberg, that lingers in U.S. history is a three-year prison term for evading $1,217,296 in income taxes. That part of the memory, says son Walter, "has been like a whip on my back." The Moe Annenberg that Walter remembers and reveres was a self-made immigrant from East Prussia who started out as a newsboy, became...
Socialism Second. After a three-year course at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary on a scholarship, Bechtel went' to Butte in 1913 as pastor of the Immanuel Presbyterian Church there. Salary: $75 a month. His angry pro-labor sermons won him the support of the Socialists, who ran him for state senator. Though he refused to campaign, he won anyway. Senator Bechtel introduced bills for adult education and workmen's compensation and against capital punishment. But when he introduced a bill for Prohibition, the Socialists dropped...
...AFTER a three-year feast, machine-tool builders are facing slimmer rations. Although civilian contracts are still coming in, a drop in defense business has cut total new orders 10%. With capacity expanded 25%, record output has whittled down backlogs from 23½ to 7-½ months' work...
...grant amnesty to those serving one-to three-year prison terms for damage to "property of the People's Republic." Courts in the future will be on orders to avoid "harshness." (Within three days of the announcement, 4,029 East Germans were released from jail...
...Grande's basic trouble is a prolonged, three-year drought along its vast watershed, on the east side of the Rockies. Lower valley residents,unable to do much about the weather, angrily blamed upstream dams and irrigation pumpers. Downstream pumping for irrigation has been rationed for 15 months; the crops, livelihood of 670,000 Texans and Mexicans, are fast withering away. This week upstream farmers agreed to cut down on pumping, and a thin trickle of water appeared at Laredo. But it didn't change things much. "The valley," says Brownsville Judge Oscar Dancy, "has its back...