Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ailing Bob Hannegan was finally out as chairman of the Democratic National Committee. To run his 1948 campaign Politician Harry Truman chose Rhode Island's hard-driving freshman Senator J. Howard McGrath...
Senator McGrath is the political protege and law partner of Rhode Island's other U.S. Senator: 80-year-old Theodore Francis Green. In Providence, McGrath has banking, insurance and other interests, including part-ownership in Rhode Island's Lincoln Downs race track (McGrath reputedly has about $8 million). His talent for politics is as well developed as his ambition and business shrewdness. He started ringing doorbells for the Democratic Party before he was out of Providence College, has held almost every party job from ward heeler up. He was his state's governor three times. He demonstrated...
...Woods Hole, Mass, last week, after two months of seagoing mountaineering. Purpose of the voyage: to study the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, the submerged mountain range that divides the Atlantic Ocean-from Iceland almost to Antarctica. The range breaks the surface at only a few points (the Azores, Ascension Island, Tristan da Cunha). But if the Atlantic were drained dry, it would be one of the world's most spectacular ranges, with several peaks 20,000 feet above the ocean floor...
...Noggins, a stout, pawky woman, came out to Canada before the first World War and settled near Saanichton, on Vancouver Island. She has an uncle in Liverpool, a cousin in Seattle, but her best friend is whimsical Columnist-Editor Bruce Hutchison, who lives near Saanichton too, and who helps run the Winnipeg Free Press by remote control...
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. & wife Ethel du Pont were out $15 apiece. They finally turned up at a Long Island traffic court to face the music (after three delays) for speeding in their cars last July, were punished with $15 fines. They pleaded guilty to the speeding charge, but took exception to one detail: they were absolutely not racing each other...