Word: mate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...began to be talked about as Wallace's running mate the day after Henry announced his third party. For a while Taylor was coy, but this week he made up his mind. He went on the air in Washington with a speech entitled "Is This the Time for a Third Party?" His not surprising answer: yes. He accepted the invitation to be Henry Wallace's candidate for Vice President of the U.S., and said: "I am, going to feel good inside...
Perhaps his most important caller was Minneapolis' cocky, fast-talking Democratic Mayor Hubert H. Humphrey, who is thinking of running for the Senate against Joe Ball but would not mind ending up as Harry Truman's running mate. He said that the President should get out and show himself to the people...
Born. To Maureen O'Sullivan, 36, Irish-born cinemactress, sometime mate of Tarzan, and John Villiers Farrow, 41, Australian-born Hollywood writerdirector: their fifth child, second daughter; in Los Angeles. Name: Prudence Anne. Weight...
...fourth term, Franklin Roosevelt gave the Democrats a choice between Harry Truman and Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas as the man to run with him. Last week some influential Democrats excitedly built a bonfire under aloof Bill Douglas to make him Harry Truman's running mate...
Eleven years ago, Chang was bundled into the Zurich zoo's elephant pit, a fat, ludicrous baby only ten months old. He had been bought as the future mate for Mandjullah, an older female. Rapidly he became the zoo's star attraction and the pride of his keeper, Hans Rietmann. When Mandjullah took the kids for a ride on her back, Chang trundled awkwardly behind, amiably accepting peanuts. Sometimes he would even snuggle his trunk into a pocket to pluck out a piece of candy...