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...caps burst into the La Crescenta, Calif, home of retired Fruit Grower Hugh Hardyman, who was holding a meeting of the local Democratic Club. The invaders addressed the audience as "Progressive Citizens of America," announced that they would allow ten minutes for the meeting to break up. Then they withdrew. Arrival of the police kept them from returning. ¶ Coughing, stamping and singing God Bless America, a group of veterans forced adjournment of a Communist rally in Bridgeport, Conn. Gerhart Eisler was the scheduled speaker...
Under the parity program, the Department of Agriculture was already committed to support tobacco at 39.5? a lb.* It had advanced $60 million in loans to tobacco farmers who needed cash, but did not want to sell their crop. (They hoped the price might go higher.) When the British withdrew, the Administration went further to support tobacco prices...
...margins of 93, 47 and 34 votes successively. The Government was strengthened by a dramatic message from Washington that the U.S. had given up its share of Italian warships, awarded to the U.S. under the peace treaty. The Communists, seeing that De Gasperi was safe for the time being, withdrew their own no-confidence motion. The left's obvious strategy: to pin Italy's economic troubles on the Government as an excuse for further strikes and strife. Cried Nenni to De Gasperi: "You'll be sorry . . . perhaps within a few months ... or weeks...
...beginning of 1948, "then the Soviet troops will be ready to leave Korea simultaneously." Translated from the Russian, this was another way of saying: Let us both leave the lamb to the butcher. Cried Moderate Leader Kim Kyh Sik, chairman of the Korean Interim Legislative Assembly: if the U.S. withdrew, "North Koreans would sweep down like red lava, cover South Korea and end Korea's existence." The U.S. Government, which last fortnight asked the U.N. General Assembly to help end the Korean stalemate, thought the same...
...child, she traveled with him on his tours, listened to him from opera-house wings, dressed up in his paints and costumes. That touring ended the day daddy made the tabloid headlines. Mme. Pinza sued Soprano Elisabeth Rethberg for $250,000 for alienation of affections. She later withdrew the suit, but divorced Ezio and took Claudia with her to Italy...