Word: card
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Garry went into politics at the age of 12, when he rang doorbells for his father, who was an alderman in Chicago's Eighth Ward. He also learned to lay brick (and still carries a union card), but for more than 30 years Chicago's brand...
Last week, by order of the State Department, the line between the U. S. and Canada suddenly became a fence. Put into force July 1, the order stopped any alien from entering the U. S. unless he had a passport and visa, or a "workers' commuter" card. U. S. citizens needed no passport to enter Canada, did need documentary proof of their citizenship to get back...
Molotov's right-hand man in the Foreign Office is 40-year-old Alexei Vassiltchenko, who few years ago was Stalin's clean-up man. In the evenings he plays a card game called "Preference" with his boss and listens to his long-winded, quasi-scientific dissertations on foreign policy. Vassiltchenko is Molotov's file man (Molotov cannot go half an hour without consulting a file), and one of his files is labeled Bessarabia and The Straits. In the view of the Russian Foreign Office, Bessarabia, the Dardanelles and the Bosporus are parts of the same objective...
...early career on the air, The Missus Goes to Market opened 10,000 new outlets for Automatic Soap Flakes. Similarly successful, Meet the Missus has attracted a million requests for a card game advertised on the program, and pulls 3,000 letters a week. Reveling in his success with the matrons, young Tommie Bartlett earns $22,000 a year, lives handsomely in a duplex apartment on Lake Shore Drive. A feature of almost every berry, corn and apple festival around Chicago, Bachelor Tommie has so far received 20 proposals of marriage, inherited $5,000 from one mike-struck listener...
Dosed with dilantin every day, Eugene galloped through his first readers in three weeks, taught himself multiplication without help, learned to play ball, badminton and card games, dressed up for formal dinner parties, played gently with year-old babies. Within six months, said Dr. Fabing, Eugene's mental age had leaped from six to ten. His progress still continues...