Word: plum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republican Party last week demonstrated the way to force-feed a U.S. Senator with a patronage plum. The reluctant Senator: Idaho Republican Henry Dworshak. The plum: a new federal judgeship in Idaho...
...Little Lunnon." To Colorado's Governor Dan Thornton, the decision was "a dream come true." Scores of towns had fought over the plum; 580 were suggested and 67 were checked firsthand...
After two years in Frankfort, he went back to Pulaski County and tried for the local political plum: county judge. In the election of 1929 he won handily, and moved into the office his father and grandfather had occupied before...
Last week Composer Kirchner. an associate professor of music at U.S.C., added a new plum to his rich pudding: he was named a full professor at California's up-to-date Mills College, whose faculty already includes famed French Composer Darius Milhaud...
...realize the fact. Ferdinand goes to London, where he makes a beeline for the French "colony" on the river ("That's what they call the Thames"). In a dockside pub he teams up with Boro, a sleazy French pianist "who was in the habit of wearing plum derbies...