Word: auge
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week, when the Democratic primary returns were counted, it was obvious that the voters lumped all the Longs together, and that many were disgruntled at Old Earl's tax boosts (TIME, Aug. 30). Russell won by less than 10,000 votes. It was, nevertheless, a handsome victory. It made Russell the youngest U.S. Senator (he would be 30 the day after the final election in November) to be elected since West Virginia's Rush Dew Holt in 1935.* And it strongly bulwarked the Long tribe's power in Louisiana...
...serenade her, 68-year-old Queen Wilhelmina could be seen plainly on the palace balcony, waving her hands like a drum majorette. Later on, at a huge pageant in the Olympic Stadium, the Queen clapped and laughed like a child at the circus. That day was Aug. 31, a day that has been the national holiday of The Netherlands for as long as most Hollanders could remember. "Why can't we celebrate the new Queen's birthday on Aug. 31 as well?" complained a visitor from the West Indies. "After all, you can't change that...
Mine Own Executioner. Perceptive melodrama, with Burgess Meredith as a preoccupied psychiatrist, and Kieron Moore as the patient that got away (TIME, Aug...
Street With No Name. A skillful, conventional semi-documentary about G-men and young criminals, with Richard Widmark and Mark Stevens (TIME, Aug...
...Largo. A veteran recovers his self-respect fighting gangsters. Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lionel Barrymore, Claire Trevor and others do some fine work in Director John Huston's adaptation of a Maxwell Anderson play (TIME, Aug...