Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps the closest race of all would be for Senator from California. The Democrats were acting as if the unseating of 38-year-old Republican William F. Knowland was the most important thing they had to do. To California went two of Harry Truman's Cabinet-Clinton Anderson and Cap Krug-and his ever-loyal Senator Alben Barkley. And Henry Wallace went too. They said their pieces for Will Rogers Jr. and other Democrats-while Will carefully ducked having his picture taken with Henry Wallace...
...Henry Cabot Lodge, his opponent in the Senate race, rightly could and did say last week: "More than a year after the end of the war, we confront shortages of sugar, soap, white shirts, clothes for children, while newspapers tell us of factories closing down for lack of raw materials and of automobile companies scrapping their plans to expand. All this in a country which persists in shipping large quantities of many much-desired articles to a country like Marshal Tito's Yugoslavia, in which our own citizens and other friends of human freedom, such as Archbishop Stepinac, have...
Some people said that vindictive old John L. Lewis itched to hotfoot the Administration on Nov. 5. Some said that crafty old John L. Lewis wanted to get a wage oar in for his United Mine Workers before the rival C.I.O. began its new race for raises. Still others said that, after five months of relative personal anonymity (while his U.M.W. grubbed along on its Government contract), egomaniacal...
...deadlock continued-and so did the atomic arms race which the UNAEC was set up to prevent...
...Council has been "beaten to the draw" by anyone--or why the matter has any affinity to a race--is something beyond...