Word: barak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that gathered over the melon in Room 808 had been summoned by Tom Dewey to select a Vice President. Some were old Dewey partisans-Congressman Leonard Hall of New York; Dewey's John Foster Dulles; National Committeeman Lew Wentz of Oklahoma; Barak Mattingly of Missouri and Mason Owlett of Pennsylvania. Others were days-old allies, men who had thrown their weight behind the Dewey bandwagon when that weight counted most-New Jersey's Governor Alfred Driscoll, Pennsylvania's Senator Ed Martin, Massachusetts' Governor Robert F. Bradford, Senator Leverett Saltonstall, and the Kansas City Star...
...Louis, Dewey gave his strategy a trial whirl. After a brief conference, Missouri's National Committeeman Barak T. Mattingly unhesitatingly announced that Tom Dewey would be nominated on the first ballot. He said that Dewey was already assured of 420 of the approximately 547 votes he needed to win, that Missouri was overwhelmingly eager to follow the Dewey standard. For the rest of his "vacation," Tom Dewey would do his best to make that spirit contagious...
...last week: Iowa's middle-of-the-road National Committeeman Harrison Earl Spangler, a party wheel horse for two decades; Delaware's strawberry-growing ex-Senator John G. Townsend, close friend of Senate G.O.P. Leader Charles McNary; and Missouri's middle-of-the-road National Committeeman Barak Thomas Mattingly, host to the meeting in St. Louis on Dec. 7 at which the chairman will be picked...
...pontiff is rawboned, militant "Judge" Joseph Frederick Rutherford, 70, who in 1896 accompanied William Jennings Bryan on his first Presidential campaign, who in 1930 startled the U. S. by deeding a California house, garage and two automobiles, in perpetuity, to await the reappearance on earth of King David, Gedeon, Barak. Samson and other Biblical worthies...