Word: billing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even the Democrats showed certain spurious concern for the plight of the Grand Old Party. Said National Chairman Bill Boyle: "I earnestly pray that these failures will persuade the Republican Party that it must develop a program of its own if it wishes to preserve not only its own political party but the two-party system." Matters had hardly gotten to that extreme stage yet. A closer danger was that Republican diehards in the Midwest seize on the defeat of Internationalist John Foster Dulles as one more proof that the bipartisan foreign policy was a political albatross...
...even close. Despite the opposition of most of the city's newspapers and two rival candidates, O'Dwyer piled up 1,264,600 votes-308,000 more than his nearest opponent, Republican Reformer Newbold Morris. Only two Republicans were elected to city offices. Triumphant Irish-born Bill O'Dwyer had his own explanation: "It means that New York City is a New Deal and a Fair Deal town. It means that, while the people of this city are not organized, labor is organized, and the people have confidence in any one in whom organized labor has confidence...
From a balcony of the Presidential Palace the President smiled down on the "spontaneous" marchers. His bill to float the largest foreign loan in Cuba's history had already sailed through the Senate with a 37-9 majority, and needed only House approval, which would probably be voted this week...
...invited Physicist Dr. Wendell C. Peacock to give a brief atomic run-through on Arthur Godfrey and His Friends (Wed. 8 p.m., CBS-TV). The interview stalled when jittery bobby-soxers in the studio audience began to rustle impatiently for the program's handsome, 21-year-old Crooner Bill Lawrence. Scolded Godfrey: "I'm not very happy about the reception you folks give to a serious discussion when you come in here ... I'd like to ask that the folks who came ... to hear the singers wait a few minutes, or there will be no more audience...
Trumbull ran off the same pattern again in the fourth quarter to wrap up the game for the Elis. Dudley's Dave Gilbert set up the Commuter score with a 40 yard end run, then heaved a 30 yard pass to Bill Monteith, who went over standing...