Word: slate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When he went abroad, two dark-skinned, cowboy-booted bodyguards were seldom far away. To the Mexicans of Duval County he represented both love and fear. Like his father he spoken fluent Spanish, almost invariably named a full slate of Latin Americans for the voters to elect. The sick, the jobless, the unlucky were seldom turned away from Parr's air-conditioned office. Duval County got good roads (built by George Parr's road company). He took care of important friends even more dramatically; one Thomas Y. Pickett, named as county oil evaluator (a job which takes...
...battle for control of the New Haven Railroad at the annual meeting April 14 is shaping up. Seven directors who refused last week to run on the management's, slate for re-election will run on an opposition ticket. (Four had been put on the board last year to avoid a similar wrangle.) Principal contestants: President Frederic C. Dumaine Jr., who favors building up the road by plowing back earnings, and Manhattan Securities Dealer Patrick B. McGinnis, who wants accumulated preferred dividends paid up and common dividends renewed...
...seven game intra-league football slate cannot go into effect before 1956 no matter what the presidents decide, however, since schedules for the fall of 1955 have already been completed...
...seven-game slate of intra-league contests cannot go into effect before 1956 no matter what the presidents decide today, because schedules for the fall of 1955 have already been completed. Harvard six Ivy games in 1955, playing all the League colleges but Penn...
...with Holworthy's 27-19 defeat of Matthews North, Stoughton went into the lead with a 7-0 record. In other games last night Wigglesworth East trounced Weld North, 38-19, and Straus South topped Grays, 29-22. Apley is still leading the American League with a 7-0 slate...