Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Protocol. As the 1948 campaign drew to its close, it was evident that it had induced a curious reaction. The most energetic efforts of two major and three minor candidates had apparently either soothed, dulled or completely anesthetized the electorate...
...boss, Harry Truman, was a little disappointed by the way the Vinson business had turned out (TIME, Oct. 18), and had decided to try something else. So White House advisers, including the President's military aide, Major General Harry Vaughan, cooked up another idea to spring at a strategic moment in the political campaign...
Forrestal had already acted. The story around the Pentagon was that he telephoned Steelman and told him that the wording of the order was unthinkable. He sent the document to Major General Harold Bull, deputy director of G3, with instructions to take out the "unthinkable" passages and write an order which could be issued without scaring the wits out of the whole nation, if not the world. When General Bull finished his draft it was forwarded to Harry Truman on his campaign train...
...sent a tall, sturdily built Russian in the uniform of a major in the MVD (secret police) to question the fugitives. Pirogov led off with the statement that he wasn't going back to Russia until there was a change in the regime. When the major kept referring to a "forced landing," Pirogov corrected him sharply: "There was no forced landing about it. I landed on U.S. territory because I intended to. This was an escape, not a forced landing...
With a goal of 2,000 student signatures, the entire squad will circulate petitions at the Houses today in the first leg of a campaign that will run through the weekend. The wrestlers are asking "major" status as the result of their '48-48 attendance figures, which equalled those of basketball and were second only to football...