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...Howard Latourette complained bitterly that the Truman Administration was giving him no help. The Veep conspicuously skipped Oregon in his western barnstorming and, when asked, elaborately failed to remember the Democrat's name. He added: "I like Wayne Morse. He is an attractive man." Morse was considered a shoo...
...later by the sluggishness of General George Meade who allowed Lee's defeated Confederate army to slip safely across the Potomac River after Gettysburg. Said Lincoln of Meade's performance: "I'll be hanged if I could think of anything but an old woman trying to shoo her geese across a creek...
...Canada's 21st general election, the Liberal Party was a shoo-in. An hour and 16 minutes after the vote-counting started in Eastern Canada and long before the polls closed on the West Coast, it was obvious that the people wanted no change in the government they had had for the last 14 years. By the time the whole country was heard from, the Liberals were back in office with the greatest majority in their party's history...
...Real Issue. Muñoz never took his eye off the political ball. He won a smashing legislative victory in 1944, and by 1948 he was a shoo-in for Governor. In both campaigns he told his people that their old obsession about political status, i.e., whether they should demand U.S. statehood or national independence, was not a valid issue. The real issue, he insisted, was the social and economic welfare of the Puerto Rican people...
Despite the decisive whipping the varsity administered to Yale last weekend, they are by no means a shoo-in to repeat the process tonight. The three hour ride to New Haven, the factor of playing on a strange rink--one of the longest and thinnest in the region--before a partisan crowd, are but two forces which could operate against the Crimson...