Word: similarities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, in the capitals of every state, similar groups of electors gathered for similar ceremonies. In New York-as in other states which the G.O.P. carried-they were Republicans. New York's electors, who also posed for an official photograph, got a free lunch, free fountain pens and a chance to meet Governor Thomas E. Dewey.* In Democratic Tennessee there was a mild flurry of excitement. An elector named Preston Parks carried out a vow-and exercised his constitutional right-to vote for the Dixiecrats' J. Strom Thurmond instead of Harry Truman...
...Costa Rica as U.S. representative of the O.A.S.'s four-man investigating commission. Despite his lack of enthusiasm, the new peace machinery seemed certain to pass its first test impressively-so impressively, in fact, that Acting Secretary of State Lovett considered urging the O.A.S. to set up a similar system for consultation among the American republics on concrete measures to support democratic governments before they fall...
Fisher said that he was not acting as a Harvard delegate, but purely as a member of the HYRC when he wrote the report. Students for Democratic Action and the Young Progressives of America with similar reports on NSA. he said...
Leede, who put in 12 field goals and 10 fouls, and varsity center Bill Prior, with a total of 23 points, took turns tilling the lead back and forth. Dartmouth had an eight-point bulge in the second period, Harvard a similar margin in the third. But Leede won out in the end. He sent the game into overtime at 59-59 with 50 seconds left on two lazy free throws, and then administered the coup de grace with two field goals and three more fouls...
Merchandising in the Stomach. In Los Angeles, as in Manhattan, Ohrbach's has expensive as well as bargain dresses -up to $385. But they still cost far less than similar models in most shops. To get a mass market, top designers gladly sell their clothes to Ohrbach's, but make sure their labels are removed...