Word: hadn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Immigrant. In Houston, an apologetic culprit brought into the police station on a minor offense explained with winning sincerity that he hadn't been in the U.S. very long: his home was in Louisiana...
...come to him soon after he (Brewster) had been made the committee's chairman when the Republicans reorganized Congress last January. "He [Hughes] said he wanted a hearing right now." It was Hughes who had brought up "the matter of a possible merger involving Pan American-I hadn't heard of it before. Of what happened between Mr. Hughes and Mr. Trippe, I have no knowledge...
...know what he looked like. There was one thing wrong with the act. The Russians, who may or may not be after him, presumably already had passport photos of the man they themselves had sent to the U.S. as an official of the Soviet Purchasing Commission. Even if they hadn't, Kravchenko's picture had already appeared in the U.S. press. Chairman J. Parnell Thomas came up with the real explanation: the witness simply had a housing problem. Living under an assumed name, he had already been evicted from several apartments when other tenants found...
...Faithful Inn, the Deweys rested. Tom Sr. felt that everything was going fine. Ten of the 17 Republican governors polled at the Salt Lake conference had picked him as the likeliest Republican presidential nominee. "I hadn't thought it would be that overwhelming," said the Governor modestly...
...many of the wise old railbirds liked Stymie's chances. Hadn't Assault come from behind to beat him the week before? Obviously Assault, undefeated in 1947, was the horse to beat, and one of the few hesitations the wise guys had was over those two unpredictable horses specially flown in from the Argentine and Brazil...