Word: batch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night of Nov. 7, testified County Circuit Judge William B. Ardery, a young politician had come to his home in search of advice. The visitor said that he and two other young fellows had forged a batch of ballots and stuffed them into ballot boxes before the polls opened. The bogus ballots had been discovered (253 marked for President Truman and Democratic Senator Virgil Chapman, one for Chapman's Republican opponent). The judge's caller was worried...
...Connecticut's municipal courts, the scales of justice teetered crazily. With two complete sets of judges on the job-those appointed by the last Republican regime and a new batch named by Democratic Governor Chester Bowles-the state had exactly twice as many judges as it could...
...show was the climax of a contest sponsored by Kansas City's Hall Brothers, Inc. (Hallmark cards), and designed to tap French talent for next year's batch of U.S. Christmas cards (TIME, March 21). Le Plan Hallmark, as the French immediately dubbed it, had drawn snorts & sneers from French Communists, 5,121 entries from the painters...
...College rushed toward the close of academic year 1945-1949, the Dean's Office yesterday announced its last batch of prizes for the current session...
During the current shakeout of the U.S. economy, worried businessmen have anxiously waited for first-quarter earnings; they would be the Scoreboard that would show how well-or how badly-business was batting. Last week, as the first big batch of earnings came out, the scoreboard looked almost as cheerful as a home run in a tight game with the bases loaded. So far, at least, business was batting well: the slump had not been...