Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Massachusetts' John W. MacCormack becomes House majority leader, as expected, he will probably abandon his claim on the Committee on Expenditures in Executive Departments. Next in line is Chicago's William L. Dawson, one of two Negroes in Congress (the other: New York's Adam Clayton Powell Jr.). Born in Georgia, Dawson is big, dark-skinned, a lawyer, a powerful speaker. He would be the first Negro to serve as a committee chairman in modern congressional history...
...back her claim, she produced two witnesses, one of whom testified that Dr. Frevert had called the 1946 trip to Texas a "honeymoon." The second witness--a cousin of Miss Schulz--declared that Frevert spoke of getting married on the excursion...
Observers in Australia also spotted the celestial spectacle on Sunday, so the Bloemfontein claim of discovery may be disputed. According to Federer, enough people probably saw the comet at the same time to cancel anyone's right to name it. Future astronomers will probably refer to it as "The Great Comet...
...Straus inhabitant is the Office of the Special advisor to the President, a fund-raising outfit whose importance obviously gives it a strong claim on whatever facilities it needs. Originally settled in Massachusetts Hall, the Office has grown by leaps--and bounded into Straus early this fall...
...some more al 40. Then the price eased off to 33. Sterope went to the post at 25 to 1. Altogether Townley bet about $16,000 on him to win -and Sterope won by a slim half-length While Townley waited, the stewards reviewed the claim of foul. They not only disallowed it, but fined Jockey Charlie Smirke $100 for making a "frivolous objection." After collecting his $600,000 Plunger Townley said with the air of man who means it: "Betting is a fool's game. I think I'll go in for breeding...