Word: locally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wallace could draw some consolation from the fact that his 508,542 votes in New York had cost Truman the state's 47 electoral votes. If he had been on the ballot in Illinois, and had received the 48 to 64,000 votes cast for Progressive candidates for local offices, he would have given Dewey that state too. But his loud & noisy campaign had struck no roots. He had managed to convince the voters that he had only one major policy-Russia was always right, the U.S. always wrong. Obviously, the future of Gideon's army...
Since the 1850s, when local option laws prohibited the sale of liquor to "any man against the known wishes of his wife," Kansas had made it tough-but not impossible-for a man to get a drink. By 1880, Kansas drys decided that they could trust neither the bartenders nor the wives, adopted an amendment flatly prohibiting the sale or possession of liquor...
...route to Elkton, Md., where the two youths felt the age limit would be sufficiently low to allow their marriage with Joanne Forrester, 13, and her sister Kathleen, 15, they were apprehended by local authorities in Philadelphia and held for the parents' arrival...
...League for Reaction entered the local political arena 10 days ago on a platform which included a property qualification for voting, "returning all Palestine to the Arabs," and "outright military support of the Chinese Nationalists...
...manager of the local delicatessen Jack Spear said last night that his establishment will not fly another aerial welcome mat unless one of the two stolen is returned. However, he has posted another reward of $50 in hopes that the thieves will bring at least one balloon back...