Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nine incumbent councillors finished in the top eleven in yesterday's count. Alfred E. Vellucci was fifth, Thomas H. D. Mahoney sixth, Bernard Goldberg seventh, and Cornelia B. Wheeler eighth. Mayor Daniel J. Hayes Jr. ran ninth, followed by Thomas Coates and William G. Maher...
Like so many other Southern Liberals, he entered the limelight in 1948, campaigning for Henry Wallace. "I was a radical grass roots organizer even then," he says. He ran for elector of the Progressive Party in district five and spent 10,000 dollars on the campaign, winning a total of 500 votes. "And those I got by trading on my grandfather's name, also a Smith," he chuckles. "I told Wallace we could have bought more votes with that money...
...Orleans has not been easy. There have been the threats, the accusations, and the economic and social boycotts the Souther liberal has to face. "The wolf is always at the door," Smith's wife joked. The family did not pay its phone bills for six months. The campaign ran on a tight $4,000 budget. "I refused to let it come out of the grocery bill," Mrs. Smith said. It didn't. The money trickled in from numerous friends...
Harvard's victory over Dartmouth was the deciding factor in the Gridiron Club's balloting. Indian coach Bob Blackman ran a close second...
Woolf writes of the death of sweet reason that afflicted the Western world during and between the two world wars. The title of this book refers to the Gadarene swine in the Bible, who were possessed of evil spirits and, according to St. Luke, "ran violently down a steep place into the lake, and were choked." The swine, as Woolf sees it, were the Tories and ultranationalists who brought on the first World War, and the fascists and Communists whose fanaticism and civic savagery made a shambles of the peace...