Word: barratt
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...Democrats and 153 Republicans.* Or, depending on who is doing the counting, it is divided into 129 Easterners, 120 Southerners, 128 Midwesterners, 58 Westerners. Or it can be divided into 16 women and 419 men. Or 228 lawyers and 207 nonlawyers. Or 261 veterans (including Spanish-American War Corporal Barratt O'Hara, Chicago Democrat) and 174 nonveterans...
Died. Tom Barratt, 59, Scotland Yard's chief superintendent and senior detective, who hunted down some of Britain's most shuddery murderers (including John Christie, who killed at least seven women and buried them around the house); of lung cancer; in London...
Illinois. Republican Richard B. Vail of Chicago, another former member of the Un-American Activities Committee, was the only Congressman closely identified with anti-Communist activity to be defeated. The man who beat him: old (70), breast-beating Barratt O'Hara, who was the youngest lieutenant governor in Illinois history in 1913, who beat Vail in 1948 and lost...