Word: blitz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fame in the '30s as an interpretative dancer: the Earl of Carnarvon, 58, on charges of adultery which he declined to contest (two years ago he failed to get a divorce on the grounds that Tilly had sailed off to the U.S. in 1940, leaving him and the blitz behind); after eight years of marriage, no children; in England...
This belated notice of the month-old bill (TIME, July 14) had no effect on what the bill's few congressional opponents called a "saccharine blitz." It was passed. The bill extended for five years the present sales quota system for all foreign and domestic producers-but with some new discriminatory twists...
...before any such combustion could take place. To that end they tried to parlay a firm core of Dewey delegates into an illusion of Dewey's inevitability, thus roll up an overwhelming slate of backers well ahead of time. The kind of delegates they wanted were stampede-proof, blitz-proof, down-the-line Dewey...
...their campaign, claimed at least 200; Stassenites "claimed another 185; a bobtail of favorite sons controlled another big chunk. His opponents, assessing Dewey's trip, decided that he had blundered. Reports were coming back from politicians who were more riled than anything else by Dewey's attempted blitz. Some experts figured that Dewey had played right into the hands of Harold Stassen, who has long been trying to get Dewey out into the open. Said one G.O.P. Senator: "Poor Tom, he's such a nice fellow...
...strategy was clear. Up till now he had been able to sit quietly in the wings at Albany, while congressional rivals and free-speaking Harold Stassen performed before a critical audience. But now it was time to start moving. Dewey needed a blitz win on an early ballot. On every successive vote the chances of a deadlock with someone like Bob Taft would increase the danger of a dark horse...