Word: mate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only Senators Harry Cain of Washington and Glen Taylor of Idaho voted against it. Said Cain: "We're trying to do too much-too fast." Cried Taylor, running mate to Henry Wallace on the third party ticket: "When Wallace is elected President, we can reach an agreement with Russia and call off this whole armaments program...
...Deep South last week, self-righteous bigotry made votes for Wallace. Barnstorming through Alabama, Senator Glen Taylor, Henry Wallace's running mate, dropped in on a Birmingham meeting of the Communist-front Southern Negro Youth Congress. It was a small meeting-one hundred Negroes and whites gathered in a seedy little Negro church in the heart of the Negro district. But policemen guarded the doors; others prowled the darkness outside. Police Commissioner Eugene ("Bull") Connor had declared roundly: "There's not enough room in town for Bull and the Commies...
...captain and first mate of a Chesapeake Bay ferry zigzagged among anchored ships for three spectacular hours while passengers donned life jackets and awaited the worst. The boisterous pair finally ran the ferry aground, were arrested for operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of liquor...
Dick Bezanson seemed to show no ill effects from his bout with an infected ear, as he slapped two goals past classy BLC net-minder Bill Schmidt. His mate on the close attack, Charley Gregg, showed his left handed shot to good advantage as he matched Estin with three tallies. HARVARD BLC Gregg 1.h. Weisheit Bezanson o.b. Hurley Abbot 1a Murnaghan Langer 2a Crolins Estin c Hulburd Withington 1d Dewey Snow 2d Thomas Graham pt Tinker Forsythe cp Moot Bernard g Schmidt...
Just before dawn in Peiping's model prison a policewoman called to Yoshiko Kawashima through the barred opening of her cell. But Yoshiko slept soundly. Her cell mate, Mrs. Li, a middle-aged opium smuggler, shook her. Said Mrs. Li in great compassion: "Get up, foolish-elder brother...