Word: return
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Johnson-Stevenson primary race was so close (TIME, Sept. 13) that it was still touch & go when the Democratic State Executive Committee met last week to certify the winner. The committee went over the officially counted returns from the state's 254 counties. The votes that tipped the balance came from eight counties in which Parr's influence is especially strong. Parr, who had more than once delivered thumping majorities for conservative Coke Stevenson, had turned on him and delivered them to New Dealing Lyndon Johnson. How Parr could deliver was shown in Duval County's return...
...club's "young ladies" wore evening gowns, and frowned at any mention of cash-checks were more refined. Customers who did not spend at least $50 a night-and the sisters considered $100 a nicer sum-were gently told not to return...
...motions, disagreed and turned the problem over to the U.N. Assembly. Russia is willing to turn the colonies over to Italian trusteeship with or without U.N. supervision. So is the U.S., but it is hamstrung by a British promise to the Senusi tribes who inhabit part of Libya. In return for Senusi help during the war in the desert the British pledged that the Senusi would never again have to live under Italian rule. The U.S., undecided on whether to please the Italians or the British and Arabs, hopes the Assembly will decide to postpone the issue for a year...
Louis Budenz, professional ex-Communist, advised Harry Bridges, Communist-line boss of West Coast longshoremen, to return to the faith of his Roman Catholic youth: "I know from personal experience how troubled must be the conscience of Harry Bridges, and that is why I am presenting this thought directly...
...might have been murder. The circumstances, he said darkly, "are strange indeed, including the fact that Porter jumped-or was pushed-through a window screen. This is not an ordinary act of suicide." Pearson said Porter had told him that certain people had been trying to force him to return to Scotland (he was a British subject), because "apparently some people believed he knew too much." Porter had told some friends of attempts to blackmail him, and he was sure he was being shadowed. Other friends of Porter said he had booked passage on the liner Media, but had canceled...