Word: bets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME, wrong, pays Reader Smith's bet...
...Coaching aside, the Capitol is a good bet to lead with its right rather than its left...
Most important part of the Convention was not what it formally resolved but what it revealed of Labor's feuds and fears. The 2,100 delegates bet, finagled and politicked in smoke-filled hotel rooms like a typical U.S. political convention, and talked like Labor's Town Meeting. The delegates elected Walter Reuther first vice president over Communist-backed Dick Frankensteen by 345 votes, then turned round and elected Frankensteen second vice president over Reuther's nominee, Dick Leonard, by about 300 votes. Apparently the rank & file seemed to think they could best protect themselves by perpetuating...
...Lincoln, Neb., Governor Dwight Griswold began reckoning the cost of his bet with 27 other Governors that Nebraska would sell a bigger percentage of bonds. The payoff: a corn-fed hog to each. His problem: how to get around an OPA regulation that he must pay full ration points (about 810 red points-a 50-week supply) for each & every...