Word: hardings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the vote was in and State Senator Elmer H. Wene (rhymes with bean), the gubernatorial choice of the Democratic Party and the last best hope of Boss Frank Hague, was a loser. New Jersey's voters, by a plurality of 80,000, had reelected able, hard-working Republican Governor Alfred E. Driscoll...
...glistening future of the Wisconsin wonder boy. Behind him was an impressive record of public service as a member of the Wisconsin Public Service Commission, manager of TVA's power operations, head of the War Production Board. At 38, he was the youngest officer in the Cabinet, a hard-driving New Dealer who quickly mastered Interior's operations and spent at least half of his time in the field, brushing up on department problems at first hand...
...Along the creek runs, the hollows and slate hills where they take coal from the ground, the hard-bitten and taciturn West Virginians were confused and worried. "That John," said an Irish-born shot-firer in the Kanawha coalfields, "he be the greatest man of the 20th Century, but I be damned if we'uns can figure him out this time ... I think John be a thinkin' o'hisself...
...imperious reign had John L. Lewis fumbled so badly, and the miners knew it. His three-day work week and the strike had won them nothing-not even a crisis in the nation's coal supply. He had methodically bullied and insulted the coal mine operators into hard and adamant opposition to his demands for higher pay and a bigger slice of royalties for his U.M.W. welfare fund. The fund itself had dwindled until it was necessary to cut off all but emergency benefits-at the worst possible time. He had alienated the public and angered most officials...
Though Eliot seemed to be the stronger team, it took a break to set up the only touchdown. The Berkeley safety man took a second quarter Harvard kick on his own two yard line, was hit hard on the six, fumbled and Eliot recovered...