Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dodge seemed just another way of keeping Franco in the doghouse. He was convinced that Franco had never been as black as he had been painted, anyhow. "How can we do better than to make an ally of a country which has carried the war against communism for the past quarter of a century?" he asked. Besides, suggested McCarran, getting down to business, the U.S. might be able to sell Spain some surplus cotton...
...Sale. Republican Floor Leader Kenneth Wherry leaped to that suggestion: "Figures handed me show that the U.S. has lost the sale of more than 300,000 bales of cotton. That number of bales could have been sold to Spain during [the past] two years." Added Texas' Tom Connally, chairman of the Foreign Relations...
...politely told a fellow passenger, a free-lance reporter named Richard Yaffe, just how his one-man escape act had been worked. He had simply gone to Manhattan's Pier 88, bought a 25? visitor's ticket to the Batory, and gone aboard. When the ship got past Ambrose Light, he reported to the purser and paid for passage. "I gave the U.S. authorities a chance to correct their uncivilized attitude toward my person, and to stop using me as a bogey man," said Gerhart. "But [they] did not take the chance. I have another purpose in life...
...Eggers, who had succeeded aging uncle Frank as mayor two years before, and four other Hague city commissioners were facing a well-heeled and powerful opposition which was determined to throw them out. The man in the high collar, who admits to 73 but is probably past 75, was fighting for political survival...
...other hand, Scullay, perhaps the best all-around sailor on the Crimson team, is new to dinghy competition. A past champion in the bigger One-Ten sailboat class, Scullay adapted himself to the dinghy a year ago last fall and he captured the freshman intercollegiate championship...