Word: owning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another noise drowned in the landslide's rumble: two-time Democratic Governor Albert Benjamin Chandler, 61, sometime U.S. Senator and unlamented baseball high commissioner (1945-51). Barred by law from succeeding himself as Governor, "Happy" Chandler tried in the May primary to win the nomination for a hand-picked...
Cleveland. Italian-born Democrat Anthony J. Celebrezze, 49, campaigned on his good three-term record, turned back Republican Multimillionaire (chemicals) Tom Ireland, 63, by 78,000 votes. Mustached, swarthy, fiercely aggressive, Lawyer Celebrezze came up the hard way (railroad gangs, prizefighting), had to beat both Republican and Democratic candidates when...
Columbus. Cocky, voluble Democrat Maynard E. ("Jack") Sensenbrenner, 57, campaigned for his fourth term in the typical give-'em-hell, revivalistic style that he calls "spizzerinctum." Typical spizzerinctum: "When you come to the end of the road, what you and I want to hear is the Great Scoutmaster reaching...
Tsarapkin's "concession," hedged with qualifications, came at the 132nd session in Geneva. Such inchworm progress has been characteristic of all postwar disarmament negotiations. In 14 years of dickering so complex that even the participants have trouble keeping the record straight, East and West have achieved only one concrete...
Though domestically produced goods in Europe and Japan tend to be cheaper and better tailored to national tastes than most heavily taxed U.S. imports, some governments may even prefer to see real competition in some fields, e.g., textiles, rather than U.S. retaliation against their own dollar exports. Another effect of...