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Word: solicitorship (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Poetry. PMAsters, many a steelman among them, gasped. When they had helped elect Jim Duff governor in 1946, they had no reason to expect that he would be anything but "regular." Before he got to Harrisburg, the only public office he had ever held was the solicitorship of his native Carnegie, a Pittsburgh suburb. Besides practicing law, he wildcatted for oil with moderate success. On the side, he liked to read Elizabethan poetry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PENNSYLVANIA: Big Jim Takes Over | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

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