Word: gaine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Whereas Maine's September 1940 gubernatorial vote was 63.8% Republican, its vote last week was 70.5% Republican. If, as GOPsters hope, this 6.7% gain is indicative of the national trend, Tom Dewey is as good as elected...
...week's end John L. got down to the good old-fashioned business of attacking the mine owners. (Ray Edmundson had fled town, unable even to gain a seat.) The operators heard that, at next spring's contract negotiations, U.M.W. would want the same pay for a 35-hour week which it is now getting for 40 hours-with portal-to-portal time included at regular rates...
...stem the Allied tides in the west. The new oberbefehlshaber was stocky, monocled, 53-year-old Walter von Model (rhymes with yodel), popular in Germany, a Hitler-Himmler favorite as well. Model threw his energies into putting up a stiff delaying action on the Moselle River, to gain time. General Patton's Third Army crossed the Moselle last week but suffered heavy losses doing it, cleared a long section of the Maginot forts, found many of its eastward-pointed guns still operable...
Although 50 of the boys had never engaged in athletics, the six weeks' period of intensive calisthenics brought scores as low as 25 up to the passing mark of 65. The largest point gain was from...
Barbara Hutton Grant, five-&-dime heiress, now suing Husband No. 2, ex-Count Court Haugwitz-Reventlow, to gain permanent custody of their 9-year-old son, admitted she had separated from Husband No. 3, Cinemactor Gary Grant, with "no chance for reconciliation." ("He isn't happy and I think it's best we part now. Besides, it's unfair and dishonest to take advantage of his name . . . because I am fighting to hold my child...