Word: commonwealths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ringing doorbells and making speeches for the unsuccessful Senatorial campaign of his discoverer, bald George Zerdin Medalie, when Candidate Roosevelt made his Commonwealth Club address that has since provided Tom Dewey (and the Republican Party) with the text of its sermon for 1940. When he ran against Lehman for Governor, he was up against an opponent faultlessly liberal, mellowed, with no disquieting ambitions. Nevertheless Dewey got in his say on housing, a balanced budget, collective bargaining, unemployment insurance, and told graphic stories of racket-busting in the process...
...never set last week on the British Empire's internal troubles. Eire-which despite its rugged individualism is still a member of the British Commonwealth of Nations-seethed with anti-English feeling (see col. 2). Canada, in the throes of an important election, lost her Governor General (see p. 27). In the Union of South Africa former Prime Minister James Hertzog, who recently defended Adolf Hitler's policies and, like the Führer, blamed the Versailles Treaty for the war, worked to convert the Union into a republic, urged a separate peace with Germany. Prime Minister...
Three weeks ago, having given away most of his fortune, Edward Harkness died. Last week his will was filed. How much was left, no one knew, but it was still considerable. Most of it went to Edward Harkness' widow. When she dies, the Commonwealth Fund (founded by Edward's mother) will get half, the Presbyterian Hospital a quarter and the rest will be divided among Columbia, Yale, Harvard, St. Paul's, Hampton Institute, Atlanta University, the New York Public Library, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, two New York City charities. To 78 employes who had helped...
...Freshman bolo team defeated Artillery 15-3. Saturday night is the Commonwealth Armory. The '43 team consisted of Nate Greer, Bob White, and Rollin Thompson...
...Commonwealth & Southern; 153,385,512 188,905,562 23.2 Southern...