Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Connecticut. Republican Senator John A. Danaher will lose some votes because of his non-interventionist record, will gain some because of his good labor record. Campaigning for the maintenance of the American system, he looked like the winner over New Dealing Brien McMahon, 41, ex-Assistant U.S. Attorney General...
Most significant Papandreou gain: he gave a member of his own Democratic Party. Philip Manulidis, the key Interior Ministry which controls the police. As Minister of the Interior, Manulidis would supervise the plebiscite to determine whether or not King George II shall return to Greece...
...Fish" line from the 1940 campaign. Martin and Fish are still there, he said, and in a Republican Congress they would become, respectively, Speaker of the House and chairman of the House Rules Committee. And, said the President, he just wanted to remind the voters that, if Republicans should gain control of the Senate, his "old friend," California's 78-year-old, rock-ribbed isolationist Hiram Johnson might become chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, and North Dakota's isolationist Gerald P. Nye would head the powerful Appropriations Committee...
...Roosevelt vote. For every Dewey supporter who might be persuaded to change his mind between now and election, there were two such Roosevelt supporters. The poll showed that from this point on, any positive statement that Tom Dewey makes, on any side of any major issue, will almost certainly gain him votes. Conversely, any stand Mr. Roosevelt takes on either side of any major issue will tend to lose him votes...
...banks. For the last three years, the assembled figures have grown larger & larger. Last week's report was no exception. Assets of the 14,598 U.S. commercial and savings banks, reported Comptroller Delano, totaled a record-breaking $139.5 billion as of June 30, 1944, a twelve-month gain of $22.3 billion...