Word: clauses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...credits of three German Messerschmitts and one Junkers shot down. Dr. Crane's letter arrived at a period when most people here were thinking of blue skies and summer vacations. But in Gangel's department, there was the annual off-season mood of jingle bells and Santa Claus. Reason : his four-man staff was busy working on this year's Christmas card de signs for gift subscriptions to TIME Inc. magazines. To help the mood, Gangel had tacked sprigs of holly, some toy reindeer and a couple of pine cones above the drawing boards to divert...
Florida's William H. Johnston is a broad-beamed, red-faced gambling tycoon who likes to play Santa Claus for a children's hospital, act like a civic leader in Jacksonville, and throw his weight around in the state government. In 1948, with two other moneybags, Johnston tossed $450,000 into the campaign kitty of fun-loving Politician Fuller Warren. At first, this seemed a good bet: Warren was elected governor over a Fort Pierce citrus grower named Dan McCarty...
...Cummings spoke on "i and am and Santa Claus" to a capacity crowd in Sanders last night, in the last Charles Eliot Norton Lecture of the academic year...
...Cummings will deliver his last Charles Eliot Norton Lecture on "i & am & santa claus" at 8 p.m. tonight in Sanders Theatre. The poet is expected to include, under this topic, comments on communism and democracy...
...followed, Jeffries led a good life. He was canny with money, never wanted, and during the Depression supported from 30 to 40 needy men on his California ranch. He was an honored citizen of Burbank, and as he grew older, liked to get his vast bulk into a Santa Claus suit before Christmas and entertain children at a local department store. He never lacked whisky to sip, nor friends with whom to mull over the "great old days." He was 77 last week when he suffered a heart attack in his chair, asked his niece to call a doctor...