Word: eights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Massachusetts. Leverett Saltonstall, who came in after eight Democratic years, inherited an Augean mess from the Hurley-Curley administrations. He declared that no man who was doing a decent, necessary job need fear the ax, then proceeded to go after other jobholders (see p. 40). Of more concern to Massachusetts was his announced conviction that despite all economies the State tax on cities & towns would have to be upped from a record $17,000,000 last year to perhaps...
...best" Republican Presidential nominee in 1940 would be Racket Buster Tom Dewey, picked by 12.2% of all adult citizens; next, Michigan's Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg or New York City's New Dealing Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, each liked by 11.5%-choices from a list of eight possibilities among whom 38% of the voters declined to choose; not included in the list were such recent Republican celebrities as Ohio's Senator Taft and Governor Bricker, Massachusetts' Governor Saltonstall, Minnesota's Governor Stassen, Pennsylvania's Governor James. (FORTUNE...
...kilowatt W 3 XL, its power stepped up to the equivalent of some 150 kilowatts by a directional beam antenna, has sent in the direction of Germany's 5,000,000 shortwave receivers an hour of news, music and Americana calculated to reach Germans between eight and nine o'clock at night...
Arguing for the victorious Beal Co. were Walter R. Bellatti and Phil E. Gilbert. However all eight members of the Powell Club collaborated in the preparation of the brief. The Langdell Co. was represented orally by Robert B. Wolf and Robert Braucher, although the brief was the joint work of the entire Simpson-Sayre group...
...Donahue '41, sensation of last year's Freshman team, who reputedly won eight events in a meet during his preparatory school career, will attempt to score a double in the hurdles and dash. Though up against strong competition, observers think that Don may chase Alan Tolmich across the finish line for a second place ahead of all other New England timber-toppers...