Word: sites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mayor Richard Daley, and Illinois' veteran National Committeeman Jack Arvey. In ragged unison the powerful Democratic old pros were warming up for a free-for-all fight at the next full meeting of the Democratic National Committee in Washington. Subject of fight: the National Committee's site-selection committee and its choice of Los Angeles as the place for next year's convention (TIME...
...Dave Lawrence & Co., representing the party's old pros, fear the increasing power of Western Democrats as represented by California's zealously liberal National Committeeman Paul Ziffren, who swung the site-selection committee to Los Angeles. Beyond that, they are convinced that the liberal climate of a Los Angeles convention would work against their reaching a North-South compromise necessary for a united party in the 1960 elections. ¶ Los Angeles is Adlai Stevenson territory, and Paul Ziffren is one of the oldest and most devoted of Stevenson's followers. Since Ziffren would presumably be in charge...
Certain features of the sample study, such as the division of the Charles River frontage, seem to indicate the University's desire to "find a balance between educational uses and the creation of business and commercial properties" on the MTA site...
Next day, with the three rescue vessels at the site, the U.S.S. Campbell reported that conditions were worse than anything the Coast Guard cutter had seen on convoy duty during World War II. There was one mammoth ice floe half a mile wide and 40 miles long. The boiling seas were choked with icebergs, growlers or low-riding chunks of glaciers, massive hummocks of pack ice, and brash or bits of broken pack ice. Nowhere in all that snow-swirling polar frenzy was there sight, sound or sign of the Hans Hedtoft and her freight of 95 human beings...
...financial backing, a hastily prepared brochure and a charming dissertation on Squaw ("I'm a very strong speaker when I'm convinced"), Cushing sold the U.S. committee. His next target was the delegates to the Paris meeting of the International Olympic Committee, who would decide the site of the games...