Word: 49th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they had come to hear was no spellbinding Mark Antony. Hefty, good-natured, middle-aged-his 49th birthday was a week away-Wendell Willkie faced the sharp-eyed committee as the defeated candidate for the Presidency. More than anyone, Wendell Willkie had warned the U. S. against the Third Term, which the U. S. had decided to take anyhow, and against such concentration of power as the Lend-Lease Bill would now confer on the President. He had been defeated; and as he waited for the hearing to begin, it seemed that he might face another and perhaps final defeat...
...cost domestic producers, who do not like to see their Government buying foreign copper (and selling it at a 2? profit) rather than theirs. The only philosophy for their wounds is New Deal Pan-Americanism: countries like Chile, in this emergency, in some respects deserve the status of a 49th State. Chile's copper economy depended on lost European markets; France took 121,000 tons in the first four months of 1940, had 100,000 tons more on order when Hitler put her out of business. Chile's annual capacity is nearly 500,000 tons, almost entirely...
Along Manhattan's Jacobs Beach-a babbling little strip of sidewalk outside Boxing Tsar Mike Jacobs' 49th Street ticket office-there was gloom one day last week. Promoters, matchmakers, managers, trainers, seconds and the miscellaneous collection of has-beens and hangers-on who make a daily appearance at pugilism's trading post, shook their heads, dumfounded. For "Yussel the Muscle." their most picturesque colleague, and only 43 years old. had died of a heart attack the night before...
WASHINGTON -- The Marian Anderson Citizens Committee tonight asked the 49th congress of the Daughters of the American Revolution to lift "the ban on Negro artists appearing at Constitution Hall...
Featuring discusions of propaganda in schools by distinguished speakers and a luncheon meeting later, the Harvard Teachers Association will hold its 49th annual meeting tomorrow with President Leonard Carmichael of Tufts as chairman...