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...Host. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Anna Hagopian sued her landlord for $22,000 because, she complained, he had 1) torn down the kitchen sink, 2) removed her stove, 3) turned off the gas, 4) padlocked her bathroom...
...lobbies, where rumors flickered through the delegates like wind in tall grass, the word had been that Indiana's Charlie Halleck was the choice. But if Halleck had been promised anything, it had been only a hunting license. In Room 808, the license was promptly torn up. Neither Arthur Vandenberg nor Dulles could accept Halleck's isolationist record as House Majority Leader. Other politicians looked in. Ohio's Governor Thomas Herbert came to plead the case of Senator John Bricker. New Jersey's Senator H. Alexander Smith (backed by Driscoll) urged the cause of Harold Stassen...
There was room, too, for girls like 21-year-old Vera Harvey in Boston's suburban Brookline. Her parents had been killed in a gas chamber. She had been put to forced labor, kept in concentration camps, dressed in the torn garments taken from the bodies of other prisoners. Friends of her family brought her to Boston a year ago. Now she works for the National Council of Jewish Women, waits on table in a Cambridge restaurant, assiduously studies English. She says: "The most important thing here is freedom...
...exhausting civil war. But there were die-hards among the defeated, and these had persuaded the ambitious emperor of the French that there was glory to be got in Mexico. There was also a little matter of unpaid Mexican debts in which Frenchmen were interested. Aware that the U.S., torn by its own civil war, could not interfere, Napoleon set out on an adventure that he expected would bring him fresh laurels (he had defeated Austria only three years before) and would put his protege, the Austrian Archduke Maximilian, on the throne of Mexico. His General Charles-Ferdinand de Lorencez...
Burke is worried about one other problem on the activities scene. Large organizations often inadvertently schedule meetings for the same night, and competing political interests of various groups have often resulted in torn or disappearing posters...