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...folks. Another candidate is Earl Long himself, who was shouting in a gravel voice that nobody never proved nothin' crooked about Earl K. Long, the White Knight of the poor folks. He will probably finish close enough to Jones in the primaries to require a runoff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Old Girl's New Boy | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

Today's races will begin at 4.30 o'clock when the Seligman and Schaal boats take to the rive to decide the seventh runoff. Ross and Emmet will launch their crews in the eight at 4:35 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Oarsmen Compete for Fall Championship as Season Nears End | 11/6/1946 | See Source »

...A.F.L. and C.I.O. bumped heads again in runoff elections at the Oak Ridge, Tenn. atomic-energy plants. Both were left groggy; the collision settled little in their scrap to organize Southern labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Tweedledum Y. Tweedledee | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

...Alabama, industrious John Sparkman, House Majority Whip, missed a clear majority over four opponents by a whisker (less than 300 votes), in a contest to fill the Senate seat of the late John H. Bankhead. In the runoff, Sparkman faces conservative James A. Simpson, Birmingham corporation lawyer, who ran second in both rural and city districts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Who Won, Aug. 12, 1946 | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

...done very well for a professor suspected by Texans of having read John Dos Passos' U.S.A. But, even with the silent support of the C.I.O.-P.A.C. and Texas' more than 50,000 voting Negroes, Homer Rainey would have to do a lot better in the Aug. 24 runoff election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Roundup Time | 8/5/1946 | See Source »

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