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Word: handpicked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1938-1938
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Ironic angle: the money which George Berry wanted, Tom Stewart did not want. By accepting it he would accept Senatorhood before his term as Attorney-General expires, which would give Tennessee's Governor Browning (his and Boss Ed Crump's enemy) a chance to handpick an interim Attorney-General...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Hard Worker | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

...District Attorney Warren L. Bishop, whom they accuse of backsliding, drafted Republican Bob Bradford to run against him in the primaries September 20. In the 9th Congressional District (Boston's western outskirts, including Cambridge, Brookline, Newton, Wellesley), the New Deal has given its blessing, although it did not handpick him, to independent Democrat Tom Eliot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MASSACHUSETTS: Blue Bloods | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

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