Word: abe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spot left by 63-year-old Jack Dempsey was not vacant long. Into it the President lifted smart, big-eared, young (32) Abe Fortas, Memphis-born director of the Interior Department's power division. For Mr. Fortas it was a reward: a Yale Law School graduate, he has long and faithfully, often skillfully, served the New Deal-on AAA, SEC, PWA, as general counsel to the Bituminous Coal Commission, as bat boy on the Corcoran-Cohen team. Mr. Ickes will not find any difficulty in snuggling black-haired, esthetic-looking Mr. Fortas under his wing. He has long been...
...Council President General Nobuyuki Abe, who, during his brief Premiership when World War II had first begun, declared: "The thing for Japan to do is to forge ahead with the . . . new order...
...VICTOR ABE...
...21st time since he won it from Jim Braddock in 1937, the incomparable Joe Louis successfully defended his title by knocking out vast (255¼ lb.) Abe Simon, who looks like a worried cigar-store Indian, in 0:16 of the sixth round last week in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Simon and his manager, James Joy Johnston, the aging Boy Bandit, screamed that the count was short; 18,220 fans screamed with delight. Joe turned his purse, estimated at $45,000, over to the Army Emergency Relief Fund. Promoter Mike Jacobs rewarded him with a dozen eating apples...
When the committee finally cast its vote last week, not one of Bill Langer's Republican colleagues cared to defend him. Three Democrats-"Cotton Ed"; Smith, Tom Connally, Abe Murdock-cast dissenting votes, on the grounds that, whatever Bill Langer had done, the people of North Dakota had chosen him for their Senator...