Word: putting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other. His predecessor, the late Richard J. Welch, onetime president of the A.F.L. molders' union, had frequently deserted the Republicans to vote labor. When Welch was alive, Boss Ed Flynn tried to get Shelley to run against him; Shelley not only refused but said that if Flynn put up some other Democrat, "I would stump publicly for Dick Welch." In Brooklyn, a trim, earnest party worker named Edna Flannery Kelly, 43, was elected in the normally Democratic, heavily Catholic and Jewish Tenth District...
Hynes could not match the melodious oratory and easy braggadocio of 74-year-old Jim Curley. But then, he had never been put in jail for fraud either...
...Voters in Virginia and Texas put another dent in the rusty Southern argument that civil rights could best be guaranteed by letting the states do their own housecleaning. Virginia's proposal to repeal the poll tax was defeated by a majority of nearly four to one. But many organizations which wanted to abolish the tax-including church, labor, Negro and veterans' groups-fought the Byrd machine's proposal as complicated and dishonest. They feared that the blank-check authority it granted the Byrd-controlled legislature to set up new voting requirements might prove more harmful to their...
Call Out the A.S.P.D.! The Military District of Washington announced a daring experiment in unification: it was getting ready to put the Army's MPs and the Navy's Shore Patrol out of business. Some time around the first of the year, the MPs and SP would be merged (with the Air Force's patrolmen) into a new and common enemy: the Armed Services Police Department...
...year ago the Chinese Communists put veteran Diplomat Angus Ward, U.S. consul general in Mukden, under virtual house arrest. Later they refused to let him close the consulate to go home, denounced him as a spy. A month ago they clapped him into jail, alleged that he had beaten a Chinese employee (TIME, Nov. 7). When the U.S. State Department, through Consul General 0. Edmund Clubb in Peiping, sent a note of protest, Red Foreign Minister Chou En-lai did not even receive Clubb: the note had to be left at Chou's door...