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...Pacific I didn't say, "Where is the U.S. Navy? At the bottom of the ocean!" Later, when the U.S. Navy kicked the fangs out of the Japs in the Coral Sea, at Midway and at the Solomons, I didn't say, "It was a cinch that as soon as we got going we'd clean...
...practically a cinch to win in California over bumbling, fumbling Governor Culbert L. Olson is the G.O.P. candidate, State Attorney General Earl Warren. A colder cinch is Major General Edward Martin, in Pennsylvania, an old-line Republican, veteran of two wars, who thus far is outdistancing the generally unknown Democrat F. Clair Ross, the State Auditor General. The Michigan race is much closer, but a Republican has the edge-big, popular Harry Kelly, now Secretary of State, who polled in 1940 more votes than anyone has ever polled on any Michigan ballot...
...poor have to go light. Without price control a rise in retail price would have taken the edge off the demand at the same time that it stimulated the supply. With price control the demand kept soaring, but further production increases were inhibited. Some form of rationing became a cinch to prophesy...
...Republican side of the fence the pasture can be cultivated just as neatly. Bennett's nomination makes the election of Tom Dewey as Governor of New York the closest approach to a political cinch since the 1932 Presidential campaign. The American Labor Party, whose 400,000 votes have been the decisive Democratic margin in New York since 1936, has announced that it will put its own candidate in the field rather than support the lukewarm Mr. Bennett. This move will split the Democratic vote like a meat cleaver through a chicken...
...Varsity ball team invaded the enemy's camp Wednesday afternoon and reemphasized its earlier defeat of the Lovell Hospital of Fort Devens with a 12 to 6 victory. Although the home squad outhit the victors, the Crimson came up from behind in the final two frames to cinch the game...