Word: picking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...joined to get control of rich São Paulo State. To get some democratic backing against this alliance, Dutra had only one course, and he took it. He called on the opposition U.D.N. (National Democratic Union) Party for support. To steaming Bahia sped an Air Force plane to pick up State Governor Octávio Mangabeira, the U.D.N. leader...
Life Begins at 59. The Army's ouster of Getulio Vargas two years ago was Mangabeira's invitation to pick up, at 59, the political career cut short 15 years before. Since then, he has worked fast-guiding U.D.N., helping to write Brazil's new constitution, getting himself elected governor of Bahia...
Undergraduates remaining in Cambridge will be able to pick up copies at the Crimson Building after 9 or in the House dining halls at the noon meal...
...late applications for tickets to Saturday's Yale game have been filled through receipt number 12,681, Frank O. Lunden, manager of the H.A.A. ticket office, announced last night. Men holding those receipts can pick up their ducats in the H.A.A.'s Quincy Street offices...
Lesson. In Leavenworth, Kans., a neighbor finally came to the rescue of Mrs. 0.P. Anderson, 85, who had climbed 20 ft. up a tree to pick pears, got stuck there for two hours...