Word: accomplishments
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Ballots & Boll Weevils. Gene Talmadge had long followed the career of Georgia's mellifluous, rabble-rousing Senator Tom Watson. Gene approved of Watson's Populist movement and its appeal to country voters, and set out along the Watson trail to accomplish similar triumphs. The Georgia farmers of the 1920s were being battered by the boll weevil, would soon be battered harder by the Depression. Gene established himself as their champion. He filed for state commissioner of agriculture in the 1926 election, swept out a corrupt incumbent. When he could spare time, Herman helped by tacking up posters...
...accomplish this, the admissions committee had hoped to lower the number of resident students by 100 and to increase the number of commuters by about 50. More than 1,000 resident students accepted, however, in addition to 80 commuters...
...Power-conscious Arthur Langlie is not against public power per se, is opposed to the Federal Government's pre-emption of power projects where local public and private power groups could accomplish the same...
...right, but the closely timed schedule sort of cramped Kefauver's style. He wanted to get out by himself and start beating the bushes, taking all the time he needed to shake every hand he could find. He means to do everything that energy and ambition can accomplish to win the election. The Vice President's chair is not quite what he set his sights on as a boy, but it will do-for a while. If the Democrats win, Kefauver will be closer to the presidency than ever before...
...most part, the pilots still on duty at Suez are content to wait and see what the diplomats accomplish. "But," said one of them last week, "one thing is certain. If any of us are arrested for political reasons, we will all down tools...