Word: chargers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Charles II; and Lady Elizabeth Montagu-Douglas-Scott, 24, daughter of the eighth Duke of Buccleuch, whose Scottish ancestors feuded with the English Percys for four centuries; both for the first time; in Westminster Abbey, London, with the Royal Family present. The duke crossed the border on a black charger to court his bride in true Percy style...
Platinum-haired, crusading Marshall Field III rode his white charger into the rural South last week. Aiming to make conservative U.S. farmers less sot in their ways, he bought the dingy, drab, 105-year-old Southern Farmer, which circulates 325,000 copies every month through the home districts of many a conservative Southern congressman. As editor and publisher he promptly installed long, lean, leftish Aubrey Williams, whom the Southern senatorial conservatives helped vote down as Rural Electrification Administrator last spring...
...slim, big-chested Patton, hero-worshiping Americans had a candidate to fit the mass idea of what a Hero General should be-the colorful swashbuckler, the wild-riding charger, the hell-for-leather Man of Action, above all the Winner...
...Roman Catholic charger. There are 20 million Catholics in this country, and the great bulk of them think and vote as their Church advises. Their vote determines any close election. They have been told that General Franco is defending their faith against atheistic Reds...
...Farmer P. L. Peterson, 59, had a record year. He hired a man (at $7 a day); paid $1,000 to have his combining done; paid $1,000 in old seed loans, $800 in back taxes, $400 in income taxes; bought a seed drill, a wind charger, a secondhand Ford, an electric cream separator, a washing machine, an electric iron and a radio; surfaced the road leading up to the highway. He still had money left to buy war bonds and plunk in the bank...