Word: falle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...substituting the "Masachusetts ballot," which lists all candidates alphabetically by office and without regard to party. Taft supporters, who feared the drawing power of popular Democratic Governor Frank Lausche at the top of a straight-ticket ballot, figured the change was worth 100,000 votes to the Republicans next fall. Democrats prepared to challenge its legality. ¶Pennsylvania became the 18th state to approve (and New Jersey the 27th state to reject) a bonus for World War II veterans. Pennsylvania will start passing out its $500 million bonus (maximum payment: $500) within the next 90 days...
...economy felt its strike-battered bones and muscles, found only surface bruises. October's industrial production, which the Federal Reserve Board had estimated would fall 11%, had actually fallen only about 6%. With the strikes over (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), production already showed signs of turning up, although the U.S. was still so woefully short of steel that it would take the industry six weeks or more to catch...
Died. Clyde Martin Reed, 78, onetime Kansas governor (1929-31), Republican Senator from Kansas since 1939; of a heart attack and a fall down the stairs; in Parsons, Kans. A onetime Bull Mooser, Reed was the trumpeting publisher of the Parsons Sun, an ardent dry and a crotchety independent. The G.O.P. denied him renomination for governor in 1930. In retaliation he backed a Democrat in the gubernatorial election, failed to support Hoover in 1932, acidly advised Fellow Kansan Alf Landon in 1936 to stay off the radio as much as possible. A rock-ribbed, prewar isolationist, he voted...
...case the result of this contest is just about as unpredictable as the fall of the half-dollar they'll flip at midfield at 1:45 p.m. This is more than a mere football game they play today; it's a matter of institutional honor
...requirement that all undergraduates do a specified amount of reading from a list each summer for a fall examination has been termed a success, as has the substitution of visual techniques for texts and use of source documents in teaching of history...