Word: rowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...events, the burden of proof has now been placed on the delegates and on the Conference which opens in Chicago eight days hence. It is a tricky row they must hoe to prove themselves, avoiding the pitfalls of hysterical red-baiting on one side and fearful inertia on the other. But show themselves to be hard-headed they must...
...four-engined York monoplane, London-bound, the "No Smoking" sign stayed on for an hour out of Karachi. When it went out, Mohamed Ali Jinnah, in a front-row seat, chain-smoked State Express 555 cigarets, buried his hawk's head in a book pointedly titled A Nation Betrayed. Behind him sat Pandit Jawar-halal Nehru, chain-smoking Chesterfields, wearing Western-style clothes for the first time in eight years. Between Karachi and Malta, Nehru breezed through Rosamond Lehmann's The Ballad and the Source and Sinclair Lewis' Cass Timberlane, chatted with his good friend, Sikh leader
Sardar Balder Singh. In the plane's third row sat Viscount Wavell, Viceroy of India. For three years he had been trying to bring Nehru and Jinnah into agreement, now, with the peace of India hanging by a thread, they were a yard apart in space, politically as remote as ever...
During the recent campaign, a candidate for high public office swarmed into our Los Angeles bureau with his retinue of public relations advisers, delivered his favorite platform oration to the TIME staff, swarmed out again. He was defeated at the polls. In Denver, an old man from " hobo row" brought in a faded, crumpled news paper cut of his boy in uniform. He wanted to know if we could run the photograph and do a story about his son's receiving the bronze star. Our man explained that the photograph defied reproduction. At length, the old man went away...
...Rolls-Royce, a Chevrolet, a yacht, rented a flat in London, built himself a luxurious ?22,000 house in Grantham. He threw lavish parties. And when he stood for Parliament as a champion of the little people, the grateful little people of Grantham elected him, twice in a row...