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Word: overing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, while the House of Commons staged a full-fledged debate over whether Mr. Cube constituted plain advertising or political electioneering (British law requires that all electioneering expenses must be made public), Mr. Cube turned up in another incarnation. His sponsors distributed free some 500,000 sets of Mr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Tate v. State | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Labor's candidate for the South Bradford district was George Craddock, a 52-year-old union leader and Methodist lay preacher whose slogan was: "Craddock for Security." South Bradford's working people are still poorly dressed and skimpily fed by American standards, but by & large they are better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Front Door v. Back Door | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

When the ballots were counted, the back-door users had given Laborite Craddock 25,335 votes and a clean-cut victory over Tory Windle who polled 19,313. A third candidate, running on the platform of the moribund Liberal Party which is hoping for a political comeback, was disastrously beaten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Front Door v. Back Door | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

In his long years of devoted service to Socialism, Otto Grotewohl had never been a real big shot. But when the Russians moved into Germany, they seized on Grotewohl as a handy tool in their drive to capture the German Socialist Party. In a big shot's place at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Tough on the Nerves | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

¶ The U.S. High Commissioner was instructed to make sparing use of his veto powers over German legislation, to intervene as little as possible in German internal affairs.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: New Directive | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

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