Word: mixup
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Democrats of Cedar Falls, Iowa were sorely perplexed. Through a mixup, their printed instructions on how to use the newly-installed voting machines read simply: "Pull the Republican lever." Republicans in one Waterloo, Iowa precinct were equally baffled. Election judges the night before had inadvertently left a sign hanging on the Republican county ticket lever: "Do not touch...
...fantastic mixup between Progressives and Democrats, piled up on Wisconsin's Senator Robert Marion La Follette Jr. Not until the last precincts had reported could he be sure of beating sober, conservative Republican Frederick H. Clausen...
...picture mixup, TIME's apologies to 45-year-old U. S. Citizen Charles G.-Grey, now living in France, who in World War I flew for the French, then for the U. S. as a member of 213th pursuit squadron, won the Distinguished Service Cross. Sympathetic with the international policies of the British and French Governments as opposed to the Nazi regime, Businessman Charles G. Grey), who still flies his own plane, is not to be confused with 64-year-old onetime British Editor (he resigned last year) Charles Grey Grey. TIME wrote about Editor Grey, ran a picture...