Word: owned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beaming, bald Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan rode back to Washington from the tall corn country last week, basking in pleasant visions of the future. For two days an all-star cast of Democratic brass had hobnobbed in Des Moines with 3,000 farmers, labor leaders and party bosses...
Next day, Franklin Roosevelt sat down in an inconspicuous seat on the Democratic side, dutifully boned up on House procedure, and whispered occasionally to his colleagues. With his name, his smile, his war record and his apparent political charm, he had a potential political future that no other American of...
As Defense Attorney Stryker moved in for cross-examination the audience sat forward expectantly. But the great Thespian was surprisingly gentle. Beyond seeming to lose his temper once, and announcing twice for the jury's benefit that he, himself (unlike Wadleigh), had never gone to Oxford, he hardly seemed...
The New Boss. The tidings of his son's victory reached Ma Pufang as he was settling down in his big stone headquarters outside the walls of Lanchow, gateway to the Northwest. The dying Nationalist government had appointed him supreme commander of an area about 13 times as big...
Ma began his rule in characteristic style. From Sining, capital of his own