Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...white and blue bus, the Republicans' political neophyte, retired Pretzel Manufacturer Arthur Toy McGonigle, 52, was doing his resolute best last week to retrieve the seat in Harrisburg that his party lost four years ago. The ride is uphill all the way. The Democratic candidate is Pittsburgh's four-term Mayor David Leo Lawrence, 69, one of the savviest and deftest political bosses in a state loaded with them. With 55 years in professional politics, and with Pittsburgh's gleaming new skyscrapers and superhighways as personal monuments, Dave Lawrence has a statewide reputation, strong support in Philadelphia...
...imagination and aggressiveness into a $5 billion empire (Union Pacific Railroad, Wells-Fargo Express Co., etc.), died in 1909, and left about $100 million to his wife and five children. Averell grew up at the zoo-room family mansion located on 20,000 acres near Arden, N.Y., learned to ride, shoot, swim, row, and play polo, prepped at fashionable Groton (average student), graduated from Yale (B.A. '13), was a bridge player (very good) and oarsman (topnotch). In 1921 he formed an investment banking firm with his brother Roland (who is still a Republican). His reported personal fortune: between...
...Midnight Ride. As we drove in the moonlight down Green Valley, which is one of Quemoy's main targets, three air bursts from Red artillery exploded 200 yards to our left. Communist artillery was going over us to the beach, and behind us into Green Valley. The driver tramped on the gas, and soon our weapons carrier was careening down the blacked-out road at 55 m.p.h. Luckily, there was no one coming the other...
...polishing three new concertos: Mozart's C Major (K. 503), Prokofiev's No. 3 and Schumann's A Minor. He originally planned to play the Mozart and Prokofiev with the New York Philharmonic later this month, but last week he changed his mind, announced he would ride with a surefire moneymaker, Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto...
...speaking in the first of a series of seminars sponsored by the Harvard Eisenhower Young Republican Club, cited an 1850 Massachusetts case in which the Supreme Court ruled for continued school segregation. He also mentioned the Plessy vs. Ferguson case (Louisiana) of 1896, concerning a mulatto who refused to ride in a separate Negro railroad car. The Supreme Court upheld public segregation laws in that case...