Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Liberals used the House opening as an occasion for a nationwide party rally. Twenty delegates from each of the nine provinces crowded into Ottawa's Château Laurier for an executive meeting of the National Liberal Federation. Before them, Leader St. Laurent shook off some of his reserve. "Our opponents will huff and they will puff," he said, "but . . . they will not blow this country off the course which our party and its leaders have...
...Anywhere else in the U.S., it would have been Page One news. But not in Baltimore. There, judges of the Supreme Bench have a rule forbidding stories on confessions in local cases, because they think it might prejudice the defendant's right to an impartial trial. In the nine years in which Rule 904 has been in force the press has never seriously challenged it. When in doubt, an editor usually calls up a judge to ask what to print. So last July the city's dailies kept obediently mum on the confession, though Washington (D.C.) papers, which...
Unkept Promises. In that five-minute meeting, the life flickered out of a newspaper that had been a sometimes noble, often confused experiment. In nine years, it had cost Chicago's wealthy, well-intentioned Marshall Field some $7,000,000. He had hoped for a change when Crum & Barnes took over last spring (TIME, May 10). They had big plans, high hopes and promises of plenty of money from new investors. The promises were not kept. Field had had to pump in another $600,000 and Joe Barnes had to neglect his editing to hunt more money...
Warming up on the Los Angeles Open early last month, Ben had come in behind Lloyd Mangrum and nine others. But as he sank his final putt for a birdie, he promised: "Things are going to get better." A week later, Ben won the Bing Crosby invitation tournament. At Long Beach the week after, he won again. On the 18th green he sank an 11-ft. putt ("It seemed like the longest I ever made") to tie Jimmy Demaret; next day, in the playoff, Hogan won by two strokes. Said he: "I guess I'm making myself unpopular...
Distribution of the blue bound volumes will begin at six p.m. and continue till nine, with four tables set to handle students...