Word: candy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Model Upbringing. When Wrigley thought up the Girls League last year, he was dead set on having it feminine as well as female. Screening out tomboy candi dates, he hired Beautician Helena Rubin stein to give the survivors chic. But she never quite succeeded...
...central Massachusetts P.A.C. lost in its attempt to unseat Congressman Philip J. Philbin. In the labor-conscious state of Washington, most of its candidates came out on top in the Democratic primaries. An active, aggressive left-winger named Hugh de Lacy won out over seven other Democratic candi dates for Congress. In an earlier election, P.A.C. was very helpful to ex-WLB Member Wayne Lyman Morse, a Republican, in an unexpected triumph over bumbling, ex-isolationist Senator Rufus Holman in Oregon...
...When a doctor is proposed for A.A.P. member ship, the secretary sends cards with the candi date's name on them to all members for their comments. If there is no blackball, the doctor is unanimously elected. Between this elite corps and the American Medical Association (which will take almost any licensed physician not in trouble with the law) are about 165 national medical organizations, each with its own degree of exclusiveness and membership dues ranging from $5 (A.M.A.) to $40 (New York Academy of Medicine...
...Wendell Willkie portrait was also commissioned by the Tribune, for the usual $500. Mr. Doctoroff will sell the rights, if the Republicans wish them, for the usual $1,500. During the brief sittings, Artist Doctoroff went all-out for Candi date Willkie, resolved to vote for him al though he has never voted at all before. Last week he even let out a Willkie slogan, which impressionable Republicans may like: "He seems to put his arms around you with his eyes...
...Former Democratic Presidential Candi date Alfred Emanuel Smith. Willkie welcome: "His liberal principles were adopted by ... Franklin D. Roosevelt and Governor Lehman. ... I hope that nobody suggests that the warmhearted Al Smith ... is ... actuated by love of money rather than humanity...