Word: minor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time since 1932, House Democrats no longer had a numerical majority. With the resignation of New York's Joseph Gavagan, House Democratic strength had sunk to 217. (Because of vacancies and minor party members, Democrats still have a 217-to-208 plurality over Republicans.) But Speaker Sam Rayburn had few illusions about his ability to control his decimated flock. It is an election year, he said, and there will be a lot of talk in Congress. The best he could hope for was that it will be good talk...
Genial, strapping Robert Emmet Hannegan, 40, is almost unknown in national politics. Son of a St. Louis police captain, Hannegan played football, basketball and baseball at Jesuit St. Louis University (1921-25), followed this with three years of pro football and minor-league baseball. In 1934, after years of paddling around the precincts, he rose to be chairman of St. Louis' Democratic Committee and co-boss, with barrel-chested Mayor Bernard F. Dickmann, of St. Louis' tough, brassy Democratic machine...
Some of the minor Potter characters-Samuel Whiskers, Mr. McGregor, Old Brown-are as famed among Potterites as her heroes and heroines. And many a Potter phrase has become traditional-e.g., Jemima Puddle-Duck's foolish first thoughts on meeting a dashing stranger (who of course turns out to be a fox): "Jemima thought him mighty civil and handsome." Or the note left by the mice to explain why they had not finished the last buttonhole on the coat they made for the old tailor of Gloucester: "No more twist...
...Scharnhorst to a helpless hulk, and a final torpedo attack by the cruiser Jamaica, the Belfast and four destroyers sank her. One destroyer picked up 30 survivors, another six-apparently the only men saved from the Scharnhorst's crew of 1,460. Three British ships had suffered minor damage. The Germans lost their only capital ship in fighting trim, will now have to rely mainly on submarines and airplanes in fighting off the Allied invasion fleets they must soon expect to face...
There has been plenty of talk against antiSemitism. Last week one group of Protestant ministers decided to do something about it. The occasion was a rash of minor outrages against Jews in Manhattan's Washington Heights section, similar to those in Boston (TIME, Nov. 1) and in other U.S. cities...