Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What was Earl Long up to? Well, in his race for a third term as Governor, it would sure be nice to be able to pose as a martyr, to be able to claim that the durned legislature had adjourned without even giving him a chance to be heard. Explained Lieutenant Governor Lether Frazar, a staunch Longman: "The adjournment will earn him 100,000 votes...
...find his country an economic mess and in political disarray, President Sukarno of Indonesia surrendered to army pressure by reviving the dictatorial 1945 constitution and appointing to his powerful new "inner" Cabinet not a single Communist Party member (TIME, July 20). Last week the Communists, who still claim 1,500,000 members, got another slap. On the very day that their newspaper Harian Rakjat (People's Daily) announced the convening of their big sixth national congress next week, Army Chief of Staff Abdul Haris Nasution ordered that the congress be "postponed indefinitely." It would, he said, only "sharpen political...
Died. Reuben Bennett D'Aigle, 85, legendary lone-wolf gold prospector who roamed the Canadian North in search of his fortune and always narrowly missed it; of a heart attack; in Scarborough, Ont. On his way to register a claim to gold he discovered in northern Ontario in 1907, "Sourdough" was sidetracked by tales of a silver strike, learned to his sorrow that he had passed up a $500 million gold mine. After years of scouring Labrador (which has remembered him in the names of rivers, lakes and streets), he struck iron ore, but the depression prevented him from...
...Life Savers (said Adman Cone: "How loud can you shout, how much can you claim for a 5? candy? Life Savers knows exactly...
Ominously, Moghabghab's relatives refused to attend his funeral or claim his body for burial. Following custom, they will accept his body only if it is accompanied by the corpses of his assassins...