Word: events
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...giving himself a hastily assembled reputation as a guardian of political morals, a device which might well be useful when he ran against ex-gangbuster Tom Dewey in New York's gubernatorial race. He was also giving Democrats the chance to say "we policed ourselves" in the event the country went Republican next autumn. Having tossed Andy May's reputation into the ashcan the Mead Committee last week roughed up another Democrat...
Entries for the regatta close at 6 o'clock next Wednesday afternoon. Oarsmen may row in only one event according to the rules established by Dennison and Callanan, and prizes will be presented to the winners of each half mile race...
Texas had enough candidates, issues, mudslinging and free watermelon to stock half a dozen southern Democratic primaries. But the voters who worked the polls in record numbers last week seemed vaguely dissatisfied. The trouble was that the main event, the 14-man fight for the gubernatorial nomination, had produced no first-rate political showman. If there is anything a Texan abhors it is to have his candidates turn out less flamboyant than the issues they hawk...
...acceptable organization candidate for governor was already available. Lieut. Governor Wilbert Snow, poet and college professor, could be depended upon to distribute party patronage properly in the event of a Democratic victory in November. The pros thought Newcomer Bowles might learn the ropes more safely as a Senator under the watchful eye of Connecticut's Democratic leader and senior Senator in Washington-ambitious, young (42) Brien McMahon...
Since her daughter Sigrid's wedding, the event of the season, dignified Frau Hans Frank (her husband was the former governor of Poland) has been taking things easier, wining and dining only such close friends as Frau Wilhelm Frick and Frau Walther Funk...