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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Proudly displayed a certificate making him an honorary transport pilot, and the first of 500,000 new identification cards for members of the Army's Organized Reserve Corps. Rank: "C-in-C." Expiration date: "Indefinite...
Last week the voters of the State of New York brought in their verdict. It was for the welfare state. In the first major election since Harry Truman's 1948 "mandate," they elected Lehman to the Senate by a majority...
...city voters beat Dulles. In New York City, conservative Deweyman Dulles dropped 210,000 votes that liberal Deweyman Ives had had in 1946. Upstate, Dulles, in his first try for public office, held the usual Republican rural counties, but hustling labor workers got out an extra 195,000 Lehman votes in upstate cities...
...Francisco, husky, able John Francis Shelley, 44, seasoned state political leader and president of the California State Federation of Labor (A.F.L.), handily captured the ever-Republican Fifth District. But Shelley was the first to admit that the labor-heavy Fifth was just replacing one good union man with an other. His predecessor, the late Richard J. Welch, onetime president of the A.F.L. molders' union, had frequently deserted the Republicans to vote labor. When Welch was alive, Boss Ed Flynn tried to get Shelley to run against him; Shelley not only refused but said that if Flynn put up some...
...proudest achievement, Driscoll thinks, is New Jersey's new constitution which a voters' referendum adopted two years ago. One of its provisions abolished an old state rule which prohibited a governor from succeeding himself. Under it, Alfred Driscoll became the first man to win two successive terms as New Jersey's governor in 105 years...