Word: fewness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Handsome, 54-year-old Harry Darby was as Republican as Kansas itself. A national committeeman, he turned down the national chairmanship this year, before it was handed to New Jersey's Guy Gabrielson. Darby wrenched control of Kansas' Republican delegation from Alf Landon last year and led it...
One morning in October 1933, Schomaker, Bridges and a Communist named Bruce B. Jones sat in a restaurant sipping coffee (paid for by Bridges) and talking. "In the course of the conversation," said the witness, "Jones put the $64 question to Bridges. The question was: 'When are you going...
Bernard DeVoto is a historian and ex-Harvard lecturer who makes his real money by writing slick-magazine love fiction (usually under the pen name of John August) and gets his prejudices off his chest, with none of the historian's usual judicial balance, in Harper's Magazine...
A fortnight later the small French force was picked up by a British squadron in the latitude of Cape Finisterre. After a lengthy chase, Admiral Dumanoir ran out his few remaining guns, but within a few hours the Duguay^ lay helpless in the Atlantic wallow, waiting with her three sisters...
The C.G.I.L., Italy's Communist-dominated Confederation of Labor, tried to stage a one-day general strike. Purported reason: to protest the deaths of two peasants who had tried to seize idle land and been killed in battles with police. The strike was an even more dismal flop than...