Word: offs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In a record off-year turnout, they booted aside four Republicans and installed four Democrats in the posts of treasurer, controller, coroner and register of wills.
Be It Resolved . . . Californians, who last November voted the nation's costliest old-ae pensions, last week reconsidered their budget-busting generosity. By a 400,000 majority, they slapped down demagogic George McLain's Citizens' Committee for Old Age Pensions (TIME, Sept. 5) despite support of the...
¶ Voters in Virginia and Texas put another dent in the rusty Southern argument that civil rights could best be guaranteed by letting the states do their own housecleaning. Virginia's proposal to repeal the poll tax was defeated by a majority of nearly four to one. But many...
The men sat restively before their weather-seamed shacks, slicing their tobacco thin, and talking. Eight weeks of strike had been too much for the 380,000 United Mine Workers. Almost three months of the wizened pay of the three-day week had been uncomfortable enough, but the strike that...
White Flag. But never in his 29 years of imperious reign had John L. Lewis fumbled so badly, and the miners knew it. His three-day work week and the strike had won them nothing-not even a crisis in the nation's coal supply. He had methodically bullied...