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Word: mourner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York's durable Sol Bloom, 78, will take over the Foreign Affairs Committee from New Jersey's Charles A. Eaton. New York's tight-fisted John Taber will relinquish the Appropriations Committee purse strings to Missouri's Clarence Cannon, 69, who looks like a professional mourner and is always willing to give a sympathetic ear to an Administration request...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: New Jobs, Old Faces | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

...Like a mourner laying a nosegay on a grave, Miss Josephine Roche last week paid the first liquidating dividend of her bankrupt Rocky Mountain Fuel Co., the company the United Mine Workers loved. The dividend of 25? on each of the company's 758,720 shares of common stock came from sales of coal lands and royalties from mines leased to other companies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Mournful Dividend | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

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