Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Actually, Harold Stassen got only a trifle less than Taft and Dewey combined. He walked off with 43% of the vote, to 36% for Dewey and 11% for Taft.* And he had done more than win a popularity contest. Thirteen of Nebraska's 15 convention delegates announced that they would vote for Stassen on the first ballot -though they are not legally bound by the primary results. The significance of the Nebraska election was that, in the space of two short weeks, Stassen had become the man to beat for the nomination -the man for all other candidates...
...guests for cocktails, had shown Brazil how a jet-propelled American does business. At work and at play he had talked fast-Brazilians sometimes thought too fast-to sell his ideas. He wanted to raise the level of life of 47,000,000 Brazilians which could easily be done from Brazil's own resources. He wanted to open Brazil's potential oilfields to U.S. capital. He wanted to see Brazil's rickety transportation network expanded and made efficient. With realistic vision, he advocated settling 700,000 D.P.s in Brazil's vast backlands. Often he lost patience...
...born the 13th and last son of a poor Staffordshire potter; Josiah Wedgwood died the father of an industry. What Henry Ford did for cars in the 20th Century, Wedgwood had done for plates, pots, cups & saucers in the 18th. Judging by the show of his vast works (and those of his descendants) which opened in the Brooklyn Museum last week, Wedgwood had taste as well as technique...
Moscow's foreign press corps thought Cecilia Nelson Kohonen a fairly harmless person. A small (5 ft. 2 in.), pleasant-faced blonde of 33, she was a native of Michigan who had renounced her U.S. citizenship. She had done secretarial work for Visiting Reporters Edgar Snow and Maurice Hindus, and for the U.S. Embassy. For two years she worked part-time for Robert Magidoff, 42, correspondent for McGraw-Hill, Britain's Exchange Telegraph news agency...
...results have been just about what anyone could expect. Some good Councilmen took office,--and there were some that could have been much better. Consequently, Council operations suffered lapses, and because of these mistakes--which often gained more attention than the fine jobs Councils have done--many potential candidates shied away, or lost what interest they may have had in Council work...