Word: drew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Premier Alcide de Gasperi's Christian Democratic party-like France's M.R.P. a champion of reform without revolution -overwhelmed its leftist rivals; it drew over 8,000,000 votes, almost double those given either the Communists or the Socialists. De Gasperi would almost certainly be the new government's prime minister...
...Drew Pearson, brash, breathless, and sometimes knowing Washington columnist, wearing a smile for the photographer and getting a kiss from bridal-veiled Daughter Ellen (as Thurman Arnold's son George, the groom, stood by), beautified a Woodbury beauty soap...
...surprise, too, Andre LaGuerre, who drew the major assignment of analyzing the Party, its leaders, and its effect on the French, was received with open arms by Party leaders. He talked twice with Thorez, who insisted that he had never before granted an inter view. LaGuerre submitted a list of questions to Jacques Duclos, the Party's No. 2 man, and got his answers within 24 hours. Duclos also confirmed the fact that Thorez, not he, was the real boss of the Party...
...sharpness of the struggle was reflected in negotiations between the union and the Dominion Marine Association. At first, management accepted the eight-hour day in principle, provided the union made no other wage demands. But as the strike continued, the parties drew apart. Angrily the owners charged the union with breach of its contract. A four-day truce, tentatively accepted by the negotiators, was flatly spurned by the two biggest operators...
...Probing drew little information from angry Mr. Kaiser, who seemed to think that any questions about Kaiser-Frazer's production troubles amounted to persecution. But on the subject of steel, heretofore a sensitive point, Henry became a bit more expansive. Although he had said in March that he had plenty of steel, he is now shipping it east from Fontana...