Word: slating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Change of Spirit? The Raj made one request of Gandhi: to keep political silence. The old man's intimates prayed that he would regain strength for one more grand effort. They spoke hopefully of a meeting between him and the Viceroy, a meeting that might wipe the slate clean, win at long last the cooperation of India's nationalists in the Empire's war. Said Devadas Gandhi's Hindusthan Times: "... Though the communique says the decision was taken on purely medical grounds, we permit ourselves the hope that this marks a change of spirit which...
...significant something else happened in Wisconsin fortnight ago besides the defeat of Wendell Willkie. Overlooked, until the final returns were in, was the real score of the Democratic primary. In it an anti-Fourth Term slate, campaigning on the slogan "Stop Politics-Win the War," polled 68,000 votes, as against 97,000 for the Term IV ticket...
...Anti-Fourth Term slate was headed by Milwaukee's William R. Callahan, a Democrat who has never voted for F.D.R. and who has seethed more or less silently for eleven years while Democratic patronage went to Bob La Follette's Progressives. With the anti-Fourth Term Democratic vote added to the Republican vote, the primary totals stood: for Roosevelt, 97,000; against Roosevelt, 330,000. Political dopesters put Wisconsin down as another state-like Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas-which, in an election held today, would vote Republican no matter what...
Plans for the Freshman Jubilee will be uppermost on the slate of the Freshman Committee when it meets for the first time on Wednesday at 6:45 o'clock in the Student Council room of the Phillips Brooks House...
Later in the year, Jupe Pluvius permitting, the competition will move outdoors. At present, baseball of both the hard and soft variety and volleyball are on the slate. Additional sports including boxing and wrestling may be added...