Word: chip
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...absolute mastery of Indiana through a machine that is as old-fashioned in its efficiency as it is modern in its setup. Indiana has only 14 electoral votes to offer, only 28 delegates in the National Democratic Convention. But Paul McNutt can count on delivering these white chips with greater certainty than even Cordell Hull can be sure of Tennessee or Jack Garner of Texas. At this stage of the 1940 game, no other candidate except Roosevelt has even one white chip...
...Charles Wiltschek, a crippled artist, persuaded Evelyn ("Evie") Robert-Washington Times-Herald columnist and wife of Lawrence ("Chip") Robert Jr., secretary of the Democratic National Committee-to let him paint her portrait from a photograph, then sued her for $750 when she rejected it as outrageous. Caught in the toils of the law, she last week settled out of court, then treated her portrait as she thought it deserved: kicked a hole through the face...
...Immortal who helped bring fame to Connie Mack's pre-War Athletics, and Pitcher Joe Wood Jr., son of famed "Smoky Joe"* who won 34 games for the Red Sox in 1912. At Colgate another Immortal's son, Pitcher George Sisler Jr., has proved he is a chip...
Loewe & Co., because of the boycott, charged 240 Danbury hatters with conspiracy in restraint of interstate trade under the Sherman Antitrust Act, won a verdict for triple damages. Lest the defendant hatters lose their homes and savings, A. F. of L.'s Sam Gompers asked all Federationists to chip in an hour's pay, and eventually settled the judgment for $251,000 including damages...
Author Anderson pretty well clinches his proof that Melville wrote fiction. All his hammering does not chip an inch off Melville's stature as one of the major figures of U. S. letters...