Word: cross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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California lets candidates cross party lines in primaries, but never once had a candidate for Governor won the nomination of both major parties.* It took able, vote-getting Republican Governor Earl Warren to break the record. Last week, with a 700,000-vote lead, he captured his own party. That was expected. What made politicians' eyes pop was that he also captured the Democratic Party nomination, by 73,000 votes...
...double row of steel-helmeted, bayonet-bearing soldiers who lined the 14-block Avenida de Mayo from the stone-columned Chamber of Deputies to the pink-plastered Casa Rosada. Some had camped there the night before. One Perón idolater had dragged a great, 100-lb. wooden cross from seaside Mar del Plata 300 miles away...
...observation post on a green African hillside, he watched Fascist bombers and blackshirts cut the Negus' forces to pieces. The Ethiopians' valor in the murderous battle of Amba Aradam made no immediate impression on his political consciousness. He came out of the campaign with an Italian War Cross, and no idea that he had witnessed a rehearsal for World War II. "The right or the wrong of it did not interest me greatly," he confesses...
...year's expenses were listed as follows; for Phillips Brooks house, $4000; United War Fund, $1000; Red Cross, $1000; March of Dimes, $300; Student Council Scholarships, $630; expenses of sending S. Douglas Cater '46 as Harvard representative to the World Student Conference at Prague this summer...
Born in the Union of South Africa in 1894, Dean-elect Fair received his S.B. in Berlin. He has been a member of the Harvard Faculty since 1918. In 1921 he served as assistant director of sanitation for the League of Red Cross Societies in Geneva, Swtizerland, after working with the C.E.F. during the first World...