Word: letting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that mean the denial of patronage to Dixiecrats? Let's wait, the President said, and see how the thing works out. In one respect it had worked already; Truman had passed up crusty old John Rankin's man for postmaster in Columbus, Miss. There was nothing to be gained by buttering up Rabble-rouser Rankin...
...Before the outbursts had subsided, Johnson plunged head first into more trouble. Johnson, who just can't seem to stay away from the press, or be discreet in front of it, let it be known that he had decided on the successor to retiring Army Secretary Kenneth Royall -though it is the President's prerogative to name his own official family. Johnson's choice was 58-year-old Curtis Ernest Calder, the $75,000-a-year board chairman of Manhattan's Electric Bond and Share Co. As soon as Calder could tidy up his affairs, probably...
...Baseball Muse was so pleased with the perfect records of the Lowell and Adams teams that she couldn't bear to let either squad lose the crucial game yesterday. So she came up with this solution: Lowell 4, Adams...
...order not to let the preferential ballot cheat you out of your franchise vote for as many men as you want...
...changed the bill," Sullivan said last night, "because it was unlikely that it would be passed in its original form. However, the original draft of H-442 served a valuable purpose in that it let trustees of schools and colleges in the Commonwealth know that the Legislature was prepared to take drastic action against communist infiltration into our education institutions...