Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...done more than win a popularity contest. Thirteen of Nebraska's 15 convention delegates announced that they would vote for Stassen on the first ballot -though they are not legally bound by the primary results. The significance of the Nebraska election was that, in the space of two short weeks, Stassen had become the man to beat for the nomination -the man for all other candidates to stop, singly or in combination...
...Augusta Chronicle sent a reporter and a photographer to try for an interview; they were not even allowed out of their car. When the Chronicle's Managing Editor Louis J. Harris tried, the Pinker-tons stopped him 50 feet short of the clubhouse. He yelled for the club's manager, who told him that the General was not to be disturbed and ordered him off the grounds...
...licks at his hobby, oil painting. In the evening, the women slipped downtown to a movie, while the men played bridge with Clifford Roberts, chairman of the club's executive committee, and shot the breeze. One morning Ike gleefully sank a birdie 2 on the short fourth hole, finished the round with a creditable...
Federal Judge T. Alan Goldsborough, who fined Lewis and his miners $3,510,000 for contempt of court 17 months ago,* gave him short shrift. Said the judge: "If a nod or a wink or a code was used in place of the word, 'strike,' there was just as much a strike called as if the word 'strike' had been used ... As long as a union is functioning as a union it must be held responsible for the mass action of its members." Judge Goldsborough held that Lewis was guilty of civil and criminal contempt...
...weeks ago 800 guerrillas attacked. Kalavryta's garrison-35 gendarmes and 200 newly mobilized national guards-resisted stoutly at first, but when ammunition ran short the gendarmes staged a sortie and got away. The guards' commander stood his ground, finally ended his life with his last bullet. Sixty-two defenders had been killed or wounded. The others surrendered and disappeared...