Word: 47th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Angeles, Governor Earl Warren drew the honor of opening the 47th Annual American Bowling Congress. While the flashbulbs popped, the Governor opened Congress with a bang-and held center-stage by the skin of his teeth while Comedian Harold Lloyd flashed...
...patch of green. By that time, incapable even of joy, Zamperini could only say flatly: "There's an island over there." They paddled weakly all that day and night, until a second storm swept them inside a coral-ringed lagoon in the Marshalls. It was the 47th day. Spotted by Japanese fishermen, Zamperini and Philips were lifted from...
Last week influential, controversial Drew Pearson announced that on Dec. 12 he would write his last column for Roy Howard's United Feature Syndicate. On Dec. 13 (his 47th birthday), Pearson planned to go to work for independent Bell Syndicate, whose stable of writers includes Emily Post, Dorothy Dix, John Kieran. Happy as a grig over the shift, Pearson said that Bell is giving him a flat guarantee of $20,000 a year more than he now earns. (In his twelve years with United Feature, Pearson- and his former partner, Bob Allen, now a colonel in the Army Intelligence...
...Negroes had reason to be apprehensive. This was The Man who had survived umpteen fragrant political scandals to campaign again in red necktie and diamond-horseshoe stickpin. After eight years as Governor of his state, The Man left Mississippi's educational efficiency rating in 47th place. Grateful Mississippians then sent Poll-taxer Bilbo to the Senate. There he showed his mettle by suggestions such as that all the nation's economic ills might be cured if U.S. Negroes were deported, en masse, to Africa...
...eloquence and vision of Henry J. Kaiser helped to save the 47th annual convention of the National Association of Manufacturers, held last week in Manhattan, from being...