Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...major general when he left Rio, Dutra found himself a full general when he returned. Under a new military law, he was entitled to the promotion because of his World War II service as Minister of War, but had modestly refrained from signing his own promotion papers. Acting President Nereu Ramos took care of that chore in his chief's absence...
...Southampton, N.Y., Constance Murray, 19, blonde debutante granddaughter of the late millionaire Inventor Thomas E. Murray (she is also a sister of Mrs. Alfred G. Vanderbilt and a cousin of Mrs. Henry Ford II),* had thought things out and come to a major decision. Renouncing worldly goods (her grandfather left $10,000,000) and worldly pleasures (a Manhattan debut last winter and a two-month tour of Europe this summer), she announced that on Sept. 15 she would enter the Convent of the Holy Child, Sharon Hill, Pa., to become...
Trainer Jimmy Jones was not as cocksure about Citation's chances as everybody else seemed to be. It was the Triple Crown winner's first major start since he pulled a muscle two weeks after the Stars & Stripes Handicap (TIME, July 19), and Trainer Jones figured that Citation was still "ten days away from his best race." The morning of the Derby, Jones warned Jockey Eddie Arcaro: "Watch out for Papa Redbird," the horse that had just won the Arlington Classic. To be on the safe side, Jones entered another Calumet horse, Free America, a big, flashy...
...most representative meeting of the Christian Church since the Reformation opened at Amsterdam this week. From 44 countries (six of them behind the iron curtain) and 150 denominations, 450 delegates gathered for the first Assembly of the World Council of Churches. Every major branch of the Christian Church was represented-except one; the Vatican sent no delegate, but an "official observer...
Among the river's 14 major competing lines, the biggest is the Government-owned Federal Barge Lines (19 towboats, 281 barges), which was started in the Wilson administration to step up river traffic in World War I. (Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. owns 14 towboats and 400 barges, but they serve only that company.) Next come St. Louis' Mississippi Valley Barge Lines, Pittsburgh's Union Barge Line and the American Barge Line Co. of Jeffersonville, Ind. On their newest craft, the skippers don't have to smell their way through fog, as Sam Clemens and Steamboat Bill...