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Word: pledgees (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Knight wanted his Southern California campaign manager, Insurance Executive Howard Ahmanson, named vice chairman of the state central committee-a job that would almost automatically make him state chairman next term. A bloc of Nixon's closest political friends, including Congressmen Pat Hillings, Carl Hinshaw and Joe Holt and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Goody, Goody | 8/23/1954 | See Source »

¶Stopped gossip that he would rebuff the G.O.P. senatorial candidate in Illinois, Chicago Tribune-backed Joe Meek, by giving Meek an open letter of endorsement. In return, Ike got a written pledge of loyalty from Arch-Conservative Meek.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Helping Hand | 8/9/1954 | See Source »

Although General Zahedi had mentioned no nation by name (he has to get his people, so violently anti-British until recently, used to the idea), and had made no specific pledge, there were signs that Iran may be drawn into some such U.S.-sponsored defense arrangement as the Turkey-Pakistan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Siding with the West | 8/9/1954 | See Source »

From the other side came no such defeatist talk. The Communist radio broad cast a pledge from Ho Chi Minh that "without fail we will struggle shoulder to shoulder" with the people of South Viet Nam to "liberate them."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Retreat Begins | 8/9/1954 | See Source »

At midnight the meeting broke up. "Agreement is near," yawned a sleepy French official. Mendès had only 24 hours left to make good on his pledge to get peace or resign.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: 48 Hours to Midnight | 8/2/1954 | See Source »

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