Word: runners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cincinnati is the runner-up having been chosen three times as the meeting place. Practically every other large city in the United States east of the Mississippi has been host to the annual affair...
...wife and kids; food, shelter, clothing; life in a groove. But the voice had changed for the better. It was a kindly voice Vag heard. "By the way, son, if they all turn you down, you might even come in with me down at the office. Start as a runner, of course, at fifteen per." Even though he had heard that speech before, Vag didn't think it sounded so bad. After all, a man has to eat, doesn...
Taking time out only to dance with girls from three neighboring colleges, the delegates drafted platforms (salient feature: all were emphatically against U. S. involvement in World War II). No surprise was Franklin Roosevelt's nomination by the Democrats by a whopping majority of no votes. Runner-up: Robert Jackson, 31. For Vice President: Supreme Court Justice Frank Murphy. The Republicans chose Senator Arthur Vandenberg for President over Dewey (85-to-46). The "Liberal-Independents": Fiorello LaGuardia...
...ranks to the position of general in the Army-by ability, it is said-leads his own troops in maneuvers, has the personal loyalty of most high Army officers. Ordinary Swedes like him because in his younger days he was an expert skier, golfer, swimmer, horseman, cross-country runner and marksman, as well as being a famed archeologist. Not to be lightly dismissed in any attempted Putsch is this able, strongwilled, elderly Crown Prince. His two wives were English: one, Princess Margaret, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria; the other, Lady Louise Mountbatten, a great-granddaughter...
...Runner-up in the race was Joseph W. Meek, lawyer, of Tucson, Arizona, where nights are very clear. Mr. Meek observed 3,700 different and individual variable stars, while Eppe Loreta...