Word: minor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...intriguing minor facts of the GOPresidential race last week was that Lieut. Commander Harold Stassen actually had more convention delegates officially pledged to him (33) than had Governor Tom Dewey (29). This fact will be significant only if Dewey fails to get the nomination on an early ballot. For Tom Dewey last week had another 377 delegates an nounced as "committed" to him. Even without an additional 403 claimed as leaning in his favor, his total was thus only 124 short of the 530 required for nomination...
...male pilots of the Civil Aeronautics Administration, many of whom have long been serving as instructors in Army and Navy training programs. With those programs tapering off, at least 5,000 of them will soon be out of jobs. Many are over age for combat flying, and some have minor physical defects which would bar them from battle. But most are experienced enough to hold C.A.A. commercial licenses...
...sporty King Edward VII. Dorothy studied art at London's Slade School. In her art-student days she met Novelist D. H. Lawrence, was so impressed by him that she followed him to Taos. After Lawrence's death, in 1933. Dorothy Brett wrote Lawrence and Brett, a minor literary sensation...
...Serge Koussevitzky will conduct the Boston Symphony Orchestra in a concert to be held Thursday evening at 8 o'clock in Sanders Theatre. The program will include Haydns Symphony in G. Major, No. 88, Debussy's "La Mer," and Rachmaninoff's Symphony in E minor, No. 2, Opus 27. Further particulars may be obtained by inquiring at the University News Office in University Hall...
...years, Victor Kravchenko was a loyal Russian minor official. He rose to be a voyentechnik (technician) with rank of captain in the Red Army. Suddenly in Manhattan last week he threw over his job-and his Russian citizenship-and placed himself "under the protection of American opinion." He gave his reasons in a letter that sharply rearoused half-forgotten U.S. suspicions of the Soviet...