Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...report was being spread that Michigan was about to break up and desert Vandenberg. The story, under an eight-column headline in the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, confronted delegates hurrying out to Convention Hall. Walter Hallanan, national committeeman from West Virginia and a staunch Taft man, announced that he would vote for Dewey instead...
...according to O'Dwyer, looked "like a carload of false teeth"), and when they left at midnight the Mayor uttered the words from which the story's cover caption was taken. Said he: "Do whatever you like with me in your story, but give New York a break. I love it. It's a hell of a town...
...gave Lord Mountbatten an endless and slightly rueful round of farewell parties. Preparing to take his place was Chakravarti Rajagopalachari (conveniently known as "C.R."), one of the Congress Party's austere leaders (he neither smokes, drinks nor goes to the movies). If the Dominion of India decides to break away from the British Commonwealth, C.R. will be its last Governor General. Said he last week: "I shall have to shake hands with Warren Hastings* across the ages, saying, 'You were the first and I am the last in your noble line...
...break the stalemate, the U.S. and Australian members of the Good Offices Committee whispered a plan of their own, providing for federation by 1949. Republican Premier Mohamed Hatta liked it. But Dutch Acting Governor General Hubertus van Mook refused to consider the plan, told U.S. Committee Member Coert du Bois that he had no business submitting it in the first place. Then the U.S.-Australian plan leaked to the press. The Dutch announced that "in view of the publication of the strictly confidential document*. . . The Netherlands delegation has requested instructions from The Netherlands government." They "discontinued" negotiations "for the time...
...School's Joseph Lawrence Powers, 69, slight, billiard-playing headmaster of the oldest-and possibly the best-U.S. public school (founded 1635). A strict disciplinarian (in his best this-hurts-me-worse tone, he used to ask erring pupils, "Why didn't you give me a break so I could give you a break?"), Powers is an old Latin School student himself, has been on the faculty since 1906. The Powers prescription for scholastic success: hard work on a classical curriculum with a minimum of electives and no frilly courses...