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...surprise of Government followers and crowds of spectators, no Al-mazanístas appeared and the Congress proceeded without disturbance. Amid cheers the Chamber President announced that the electoral college had been legally installed. Then a new Chamber President was elected and a seating committee was appointed to assign no out of 170 Deputy seats to Avila Camacho men. The Senate chose a similar committee to seat 58 claimed Camachista Senators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Two Congresses | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

...must be very careful not to assign to this deliverance attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations, but there was a victory inside this deliverance which must be noted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British War Report: Winston Churchill to Commons | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

When these ten men have been elected, according to the new plan the Student Council Representatives on Freshman affairs "shall then be empowered to assign the elected members to the two Committees, to appoint the remaining members of each Committee, and to select a Chairman of each Committee from the complete membership...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen Vote Down Election of Officers | 2/21/1940 | See Source »

...editor & publisher is an ardent turf lover named Peter Vischer. In this month's Country Life, Editor Vischer had a few paragraphs to say about "the custom becoming more and more prevalent among track operators of paying the 'expenses' of newspapermen doing the work their papers assign them to do, of putting them up cost-free at their clubhouses or elsewhere, even of putting them on the payroll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Spanish Custom | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

...Poet Rice lives in Louisville, a few minutes' walk from the Churchill Downs race track, travels far and often with Wife Alice Hegan Rice (Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch), especially likes ocean voyages, though at first he "little dreamed kindly critics would one day assign me a position among the 'preeminent' sea poets." Sample of his marine verse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poet's Story | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

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