Word: slates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...order to satisfy the demand for places on the Farley slate, an unusually large number of delegates from Massachusetts will attend the convention, according to William H. Burke, Jr., Chairman of the Democratic State Committee. Some 72 delegates, four from each of the fifteen congressional districts, In addition to twelve delegates-at-large, will represent Massachusetts at the convention...
...Declined to authorize entrance of a third-term slate of delegates in the Ohio primary next May 14. (Candidates ordinarily file by Feb. 1, may wait till mid-March.) To some, this indicated he will not declare his intentions until convention time...
...paid on loans, sinking fund charges and the accumulated deficit, little more than $500,000 would have been left to run the city government in 1939. The emergency was met then by hocking the city gas works to the RFC, obtaining a $41,000,000 loan and clearing the slate of past deficits. But sacrificed by this legerdemain was $4,200,000 a year for 20 years to come which the city would have realized from renting its gas works to the operating company...