Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next week at West Point I was cheering for O'Brien, Butler, and Bender. I out-howled the Army major next to me watching the mighty efforts of Howie Houston. I thumbed through my program to find out that number 77's name was Willie Davis. When Army center Bill Yeomans was flattened by Crimson guard John Coan, I slapped the major on the back. And at the end of the game, I saw the Crimson, standing at attention, better than the Cadets, while the Band played "Fair Harvard." I didn't gave a damn that we'd lost...
...presentation of the effect specific legal action has on culture and therefore on society. The sharp contrast between the sober opinions of lawyers and judges, and the emotional cries of poets, novelists, and playwrights gives the reader a powerful three-dimensional picture of the event. This book is a major contribution to history, sociology...
...Elsewhere in the election, the wets held fast against major dry attacks. Washington, California and Colorado rejected proposed dry measures. Oregon turned down a plan for sale of liquor by the drink, but Washington adopted...
...range, and Governor Dewey's Manhattan suite was placed off limits by the secret service men who had come up from Washington to guard the next President. As interviewees, that left Candidate Henry Wallace (who looked bitter and pompous), Candidate Norman Thomas (chipper and witty) and major & minor party officials...
...almost 74% below tax-free 1947-Divorce. A federal district court approved Howard Hughes's proposal to split RKO's picture-making organization from its theaters, create two separate companies (TIME, Nov. 8), in effect setting a pattern by which Hollywood's major companies could make their peace with antitrust (TIME, Oct. 11). RKO will sell its interest in all but 30 of its 241 partly owned theaters, and keep most of its 80 wholly owned theaters. But Hughes will sell his controlling interest in the theater company within a year...