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Word: pledgee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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"Manifest & Open." In the Warsaw suburb of Praga, another election chairman told reporters, while the ballot box was still sealed, that 75% of the votes favored the Government bloc. He was not guessing; a neat variation on the secret ballot is to cast a vote "manifestly and openly" within clear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: In the Yalta Tradition | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

Over 200 experts in the fields of government, education, and industry, packing the first session of the conference heard Rear Admiral C. T. Joy, USN, pledge the availability of naval calculators to all scientists, in an opening address.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Symposium of Calculator Experts Opens New Computator Laboratory | 1/8/1947 | See Source »

Spare, intense Premier Manning took the court's decision in silence. Eleven years after the late William ("Bible Bill") Aberhart swept into power on a pledge of $25-a-month-credit-to-every-Albertan, the provincial government was still Social Credit in name only.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: ALBERTA: Blue Skies | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

Recognizing the evil in a system that operates on fear and repression, the United States should apply pressure on the Kuomintang government to uphold its pledge for a democratic regime. Communists should be admitted to the government in direct proportion to their following, concentration camps must be abolished, and a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrong Horse | 12/13/1946 | See Source »

Though conflicts were bound to arise between a Republican Congress and a Democratic President, Harry Truman said he would be guided by "a simple formula: to do in all cases . . . without regard to political considerations, what seems to me to be for the welfare of all our people . . . I pledge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: I Accept Their Verdict | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

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