Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Heart. Last week in San Jose, Calif., newsboys delivered pledge cards to every home in town, as their part in a nationwide drive to raise $60 million for the United Nations Appeal for Children. Citizens of Aiken, S.C. began block-by-block canvassing to collect food & clothing for their adopted French city of Morlaix. Girl Scouts were campaigning to assemble 100,000 clothing kits for Europe...
...traditional springtime picture: statesmen keeping in trim for the cruel tussle with their responsibilities. Ellender, a statesman in the Huey Long tradition, recalled that he had posed for the same kind of picture another spring with Henry Agard Wallace, sighed wistfully: "I should have knocked Wallace's block off when I had the chance...
Lloyd Harper's hustling Junior Varsity ball club places its eight straight win skein on the block tomorrow afternoon, but one may hardly say it risks this record against M.I.T.'s Jayvee forces. The game is scheduled for the Soldiers Field diamond...
Cincinnati's biggest newspaper was up for sale last week. Not because it was losing money, but because it was worth so much. The 107-year-old morning Enquirer (circ. 164,700 daily, 235,000 Sunday) was on the block...
...last week to say goodbye to the famed old liner Mat-sonia. As the ship passed, on her last voyage to the mainland, a few sentimental spectators wept. One of Hawaii's most popular links with the mainland, she was headed for San Francisco and the auction block. In her place this week was a younger (1932) Matson ship, the 18,163-ton Lurline, making her first commercial postwar trip to the Islands...