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...TIME (Jan. 24) absentmindedly followed Who's Who and the Encyclopaedia Britannica, which count Grover Cleveland twice-as both 22nd and 24th Presidents-thus make Herbert Hoover No. 31 and Franklin Roosevelt No. 32. But Harry Truman, with the backing of the Congressional Directory, has decided that he is the 32nd President...
...last line is usually accompanied by giggles and gestures of pawing the floor with one foot. The entire performance, which may be repeated at intervals until 5 p.m. on the 24th, has been known to drive stout-hearted...
Bulletin. In Milwaukee, Mr. & Mrs. Julius Mathias, who have filed 24 divorce petitions against each other, claimed that this time they are dead set against a 24th reconciliation...
...Federal Communications Commission had long been a man's affair. But last week it, too, succumbed. Beamed FCC Chairman Wayne Coy: "We've had rectitude, fortitude, and solemnitude, but never before pulchritude." Thereupon pulchritudinous Frieda Hennock, successful Manhattan lawyer and active Democrat, was sworn in as the 24th commissioner in FCC's 14 years...
Republicans streamed into Philadelphia this week with a sense of determination and high purpose. The scent of victory was in the air. For the 24th National Republican Convention would do more than pick its candidate for the 1948 campaign. After 16 years of Democratic rule, Republicans were almost certainly choosing the next President of the United States...