Word: sending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Affairs Editor Otto Fuerbringer made some calculations and announced that Dewey ought to get 434 votes on the first ballot. Dewey did. Adding up his information for the second ballot, Fuerbringer came out with 509 Dewey votes. He was six short of the correct total and is inclined to send stern letters to the delegates who crossed...
Last week a parliamentary committee proposed a new deal for Canada's 126,000 Indians. The gist of it: make the Indian a Canadian. Specifically, the committee proposed to give the Indian the ballot, let him buy liquor off the reservations, send his children to the white man's schools. Indian bands would be encouraged to handle their own affairs, levy their own taxes, handle their own money. The more advanced bands would be urged to incorporate as municipalities...
...week's end, Jews and Arabs had not yet agreed to get together at the same conference table. But both sides decided to send "working parties" of experts to Rhodes. "Negotiations are still in preliminary stages," said Bernadotte. "We must move gradually-a hasty step could spoil the prospects." One big obstacle still blocked the way to a possible settlement: the Jews said they would never give up Israeli sovereignty, the Arabs said they would never recognize...
When Gavam got back to Teheran last May, the Queen Mother sent him a large bouquet of roses. Commented one Teheran paper: "In some countries to send red roses means love, yellow roses are for jealousy, white roses are for death . . . Judging by the mixture the Queen Mother sent Gavam, the situation is confused...
...letters a week. Among them there have already been twelve proposals of marriage, and a proposition from an Indian chiropodist which is the ultimate sort of accolade a movie star must get used to. Would Miss Simmons be so kind, the Indian fan asked, as to send him a photograph of her feet, and a sliver of toenail...