Word: minor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...light vote, but one that had an almost uniform pattern of expression, Republicans, by winning 44 seats, came within an inch of controlling the House (222 to 209, with four minor-party representatives) ; grabbed off nine seats in the Senate; and moved governors into the big and potent States of New York, California and Michigan. Although the Democrats still controlled Congress, States which will now be governed by Republicans have a population of 76 million and an easy majority in the electoral college. Down to defeat went such stalwart New Dealers as Oklahoma's Josh Lee and New Jersey...
...Diner, 62, steward of the Denver Press Club - one of the few surviving institutions of its kind in the U.S. and probably the only one with a club building of its own. Word had gone out that Joe had survived a serious operation, was about to undergo another, minor one. The "boys" made up a pot to pay his hospital fees...
Ginger Rogers throws her size, hairdo, and makeup about quite indiscriminately in her latest movie success, "The Major and the Minor." It is her really major coming-out since her Academy Award, and although the plot will prevent any such reward this time, her acting and a set of fast-moving lines even tops her earlier performances...
...Bruch: Concerto in G Minor for Violin and Orchestra (New York Philharmonic-Symphony, John Barbirolli conducting, with Nathan Milstein; Columbia; 6 sides). One part fireworks, two parts schmaltz, no intellectual bitters, well shaken by a brilliant fiddler and guaranteed to warm the spirits of any fiddle...
...Major and the Minor (Ginger Rogers, Robert Benchley, Ray Milland, Diana Lynn, Raymond Roe, Frankie Thomas Jr., TIME, Sept...