Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hurdle ahead: he must win re-election as governor next year. (Current gossip had Jim Farley as his Democratic opponent.) But if Tom Dewey won in 1946, he could be a strong contender for the 1948 presidential nomination. For one thing, he would have New York's huge block of delegates in his pocket...
Success would give the Communists, long established in landlocked Yenan, an over land link with Russia and an outlet to the sea. It would also block the Central Government's chance to unify China...
...North China's railways tap the nation's great coal mines. Only one of these-the Kailan fields, lying on the line between Tientsin and Chinwangtao -was open last week. U.S. planes and Central Government guards were on the alert to bar any Communist attempt to block Kailan shipments...
...grim and resolute Liberal members of the House of Commons strode belligerently into a big office on the second floor of Ottawa's East Block. There, before a full-dress meeting of the Cabinet, they shook an angry finger at the men who govern Canada...
...West Coast, the name player was Herman Wedemeyer (no kin to the General), Hawaii's gift to St. Mary's College. He is a 173-lb., triple-threat halfback who even knows how to block. So far his luster has been dimmed by the fact that St. Mary's has met only weak opposition. This week Wedemeyer gets his chance against Southern California...