Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republican since Reconstruction has come close to winning. Eisenhower and Nixon will be on the South Carolina ballot apart from the regular Democratic and Republican columns, so that a South Carolinian will be able to vote for them without voting Republican. The Democrats are confident that they can hold South Carolina. They think that Ike may get as many as 75,000 votes, but believe the state total will exceed 200,000. All concede that South Carolina is less safe for Stevenson than several other Southern states: Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, Arkansas, Tennessee and Kentucky. In the rest...
Stevenson will tour New England the week after next in an effort to hold the electoral votes of Massachusetts and Rhode Island which Truman took in 1948 and swing others, particularly Connecticut, to the Democratic column...
...difficulties. A subtle comedienne, Miss Best's timing and intonations are perfect for this part, which demands a curious combination of wisdom and naivite. But in the last two acts, the plot disintigrates, and neither Miss Best's performance nor the feathery pomposity of Loder and St. John can hold Jane together...
...Crane-Simplex, which in 1915 cost $30,000 and was guaranteed for the life of its owner. Designed to look like a luxurious yacht, it sported brass funnels and a propeller in the rear to hold on two spare wire wheels. The wooden trim and running boards were teakwood. Yet for all its wonderful nautical absurdity, it could do 75 m.p.h. Unfortunately for the guarantee, the company folded a few years after it started...
...that the place be painted.* His offices were located about a mile from RKO; his decisions were announced by telephone or messenger, frequently after midnight. Always elusive and wary, he liked doing business in off hours; frequently dressed in tennis sneakers, old slacks and a sport shirt, he would hold conferences in cars, planes and on street corners...