Petain seeks to overturn treason verdict in new evidence
Paris dispatch reports Henri Philippe Petain's lawyers asked a court to set aside his 1945 treason conviction citing new facts from Admiral Leahy memoirs and other sources. A potential retrial was discussed but unlikely, with Petain age 94 in prison.
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Paris
Henri Philippe Petain
Jacques Storni
Jean le Maire
Rene Mayer
Petain
Isorni
William D. Leahy
Vichy
Bonner Class on Tour in Houston Area Visit
The senior class of Bonner Springs High School Kansas began a two day visit in the Houston Galveston area Tuesday as part of their tour.
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Houston
Bonner Springs
Kan
Houston-Galveston
Doctor Sander Finishes Plowing Chore Seeks New Work
Dr Hermann N Sander completed a month of plowing neighbors fields at 4 dollars an hour with his own motorized plow after being acquitted March ninth of murder in a cancer patient death He is banned from practicing medicine in New Hampshire until June nineteenth and may apply for reinstatement His friends raised about 20000 to cover trial legal costs.
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Candia
N. H
Hermann N. Sander
New Hampshire
Lumberman Joseph L. Watson Dies in Houston
Joseph L. Watson 62 a Houston lumberman and owner of the J L Watson Lumber Company died Tuesday at his home in Houston.
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Houston
Joseph L. Watson
Houston Lumberman
J. L. Watson Lumber Company
Birth of Sears Roebuck and Co from humble watch deal
The article recounts how a Chicago watch batch at 12 dollars sparked Sears and Roebuck and Co. The firm grew through bold ads and mail order, rivaled Ward, and built a vast retail empire. Roebuck left in 1897, later rejoined as a promoter, died 1948, leaving a $17.5 million fortune. General Robert E. Wood later chaired Sears.
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Alvah Roebuck
SEARS
Chicago Daily News
Roebuck
Sears, Roebuck and Co
Montgomery Ward
University of Chicago Press
Boris Emmet
John E. Jeuck
School of Business
University of Chicago
Rockefeller Foundation
Aaron Montgomery Ward
Chicago
Sears, Roebuck
Emmet
Jeuck
Robert E. Wood
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Mr. Roebuck
Richard Sears
North Redwood, Minn
Colgate
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Ram
ATTIC
Moody & Tips Texas Distributors
Forest Avenue Road
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Tae Eee
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