Word: owned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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¶ 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...
...third contender was José Avelino, former head of Quirino's own Liberal Party. He was kicked out as Senate president last year when, it was charged among other things, he made $22,500 selling government-owned beer...
Winner of the lonely election was Elpidio ("Pidiong") Quirino, who became President last year after the death of Manuel Roxas. Breezy and genial, Quirino tries, at his meetings with reporters, to act like President Truman at White House press conferences, plugs his own version of the Fair Deal for the...
"When Stalin tells foreign statesmen or journalists that capitalism and Communism can co-exist peaceably in the future, he contradicts his own words, or is speaking in a limited sense . . ."
The swordmakers of Solingen, in Western Germany, knew a thing or two about cutting edges long before Richard the Lionhearted matched blades with wily Saladin. Roman soldiers who had served in the East brought many of the steelmaking secrets of Damascus into the Rhineland, and in the 6th Century Theodoric...