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Word: doornails (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...primary (no opposition). Next step: to roll the bandwagon through the Wisconsin primary (April 2), then through Illinois. Into both these primaries stubborn old Jack Garner has stuck his red neck. Janizariat belief is that, after these two elections, the Vice President will be politically as dead as a doornail. The Kelly-Nash-Horner machine in Illinois has been told to pile up an overwhelming majority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: New Era | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

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