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That gave ambitious Hubert Humphrey a base to work from. He took a job teaching politics at St. Paul's Presbyterian Macalester College, got a part-time job as a radio commentator (WTCN) and waited. In 1945, he was elected mayor of Minneapolis by the largest plurality in the city's history...
...Piao, who refused either to see or talk to them. Red guns resumed their shelling and Communist troops stormed across a dike surrounding the city to capture the North Station. At week's end it looked as if the clamor for peace in one of China's largest cities had been silenced-by the surging tide of Communist conquest...
...financially stable." Last week, for an undisclosed price, Cox bought the Republican Journal and the independent Herald, and merged them into one morning paper (the Journal Herald). That left the evening field to his New Dealing News, and made Dayton (pop. 300,000), Ohio's 6th largest city, another in the growing list of newspaper monopolies...
...been tested enough, but last week all food-conscious Britain was cheering the empire-building drug. The Colonial Office predicted that African cattle raising will show positive improvement in four years and large-scale development in ten years. Said the Daily Mirror: "British Africa can become the largest meat-producing area in the world...
Boston, whose 16,258 population made it the largest town in North America, seemed to him the most civilized in the colonies. Even so, he found that "The middling sort of people here are to a degree dissingenuous and dissembling, which appears even in their common conversation in which their indirect and dubious answers to the plainest and fairest questions show their suspicions of one another." But the women, added Hamilton, were "for the most part, free and affable as well as pritty. I saw not one prude while I was here...