Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Against F. D. R. in general are the Northeast (51.9%) and the North West Plains (51.6%) which dislike him on seven of twelve points...
...like him on every point; 2) the Unemployed (69.8%) who dislike only his re-organization bill; 3) Farmers (61.1%) who like everything except his reorganization bill and his methods; 4) Housekeepers (63.7%) who like his nine popular points; 5) White Collar Workers (59.4%) and Proprietors (56.2%) who like seven...
...Valera and his government to power for five more years. At last reports "Dev's" Fianna Fail party had captured 70 of the 138 seats, the Fine Gael party of his oldtime opponent, former President William T. Cosgrave, 40 seats, the Labor party six and the Independents seven. Under Eire's involved system of proportional representation, the final tabulation will be a matter of days but observers held that of the 15 unconfirmed seats, five would go to the Government, the same number to the Cosgrave group, and the remaining four to Labor...
Thus, for the first time since he came to power seven years ago, "Dev" would have a fairly comfortable majority, 75 seats against a total of 63 if all the other parties combined against him. Elected at first with a precarious majority, for the last five years his government has had to depend on Labor support to hold office. Month ago, his own political stock soaring as a result of the Anglo-Irish treaty, "Dev" shrewdly seized upon a minor government rebuff as an excuse to dissolve Parliament and go to the country...
With the bases loaded, with two out and the count two and two, Pitcher Vander Meer, who had struck out seven batters, thereupon made the pitch of his young lifetime, a fast one. Dodger Leo Durocher, a dangerous man in a pinch, brought ear-splitting Brooklyn cheers as he was put out on a fly to center. Young Johnny Vander Meer had won (6-to-0) his second no-hit, no-run game. Far, far rarer than two holes-in-one at golf, two loos at trapshooting, two 300s at bowling, it is the pinnacle of U. S. sporting performance...