Churchill Speech Recreated by BBC Actor After 39 Years
The BBC impersonator Norman Shelley delivered a voice matching Churchill's during a 1940 House of Commons address on Dunkirk. The public discovery reveals Churchill’s determined line we shall fight on the beaches and never surrender.
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Michael West
Associated Press
London
Winston Churchill
Hitler
BBC
Churchill
Norman Shelley
House of Commons
France
Dunkirk
Britain
British Council
British Broadcasting Corp
Shelley
Daily Express
Jean Rock
Winnie
Kansas fights liquor ban on flights says AG
Kansas Attorney General Robert Stephan rejects the 1973 opinion and says federal aviation law preempts state rules on liquor sales aboard aircraft taking off or landing at Kansas airports. The stance shifts enforcement of liquor by the drink on flights serving Kansas.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
Robert Stephan
Stephan
Nursing home protest as authorities seek to close Sarah Allen facility
William Bechtel peers from a West Philadelphia nursing home window where authorities plan to shutter the Sarah Allen home and move residents. Employees press to keep the elderly in place until back wages are paid, while related local tensions unfold around care and labor issues.
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William Bechtel
Sarah Allen Nursing Home
Philadelphia
West Side
Burglary Hits Milwaukee Coin Collector’s Store of $80,000 Value
Donald Jurkowski, a coin collector for 40 of his 49 years, lost an unins ur ed collection valued over $80,000 to a mid afternoon to early Wednesday burglary. He kept items un insured and said he enjoyed showing his coins to others.
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Milwaukee (Ap
Donald Jurkowski
Jurkowski
Windfall tax debate sways at Southern Governors meet
In New Orleans at the Southern Governors Conference the poor and elderly faced windfall tax questions as governors blocked a move to earmark proceeds for low income utility relief. Delegates watered down a plan to abolish the DOE and backed a plowback concept amid private talks led by Energy Secretary Duncan. Governors chose John Dalton as next year’s chairman as 14 of 19 attended.
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New Orleans
Department of Energy
Congress
Charles Duncan
DOE
Duncan
Louisiana
Edwin Edwards
George Nigh
Oklahoma
Edwards
Texas
William P. Clements Jr
Clements
Puerto Rico
Carlos Romero Barcelo
Nigh
Health, Education and Welfare
Virginia
John Dalton
Romero
Desert acreage said worthless land fraud case against Horizon Corp
FTC judge accuses Horizon Corp of vicious consumer fraud in promoting desert lots across New Mexico Texas and Arizona. Ruling orders clear warnings to buyers a 10 day cooling off period and a year to inspect land with five days to change minds. Horizon must notify past customers they may stop payments take tax losses sue or trade lots. Horizon plans to appeal to the FTC.
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Texas
New Mexico
Washington
Federal Trade Commission
Ernest G. Barnes
Horizon Corp
FTC
Paradise Hills
Rio
Horizon City
Waterwood
Arizona
Sunsites
Whispering Ranch
Horizon
Barnes
Sam Ostrow
New York
Ostrow
Monster tornado devastates Windsor Locks Connecticut
A freak tornado described as a big monster killed one person and hospitalized more than 100 as it churned through Windsor and Windsor Locks. The storm toppled homes and a museum, crippling Bradley International Airport and prompting a gubernatorial curfew and National Guard deployment.
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Windsor Locks. Conn
Connecticut
Windsor
Windsor Locks
James Silver
Silver
Poquonock
New England
Ella Grasso
Grasso
Bradley International
Arthur Powers
Connecticut National Guard
Bradley Air Museum
Willian Kowalsky
Manchester
Douglas Lloyd
National Weather Service
NWS
Roland Laro
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Las Vegas
Nev
Clark County District Court
Keith Hayes
Nuclear Engineering Co. Inc
Louisville
Las Vegas Sun
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Secret Service
Carter
David E. Feuerstein
Pine Lawn
Ted Welch
Teamsters Local 600
Jimmy Carter
Feuerstein
Morriston
Ark
Paul Ruiz
Earl van Denton
Charles Eddy
Conway County
Arkansas
Arkansas Supreme Court
Nursing Home
The
Nigeria
Lagos Radio
Shehu Shagari
Johannesburg
South Africa
Imperial Motors
Rand Daily Mail
Warsaw
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Holy Cross
Ohio Meadow
Nebraska
Governors Meeting
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