Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both the New York Times's well-informed Arthur Krock and the New York Sun's frankly GOPartisan George Van Slyke insisted last week that the phrase had a solid basis in fact. According to the story, Democratic National Chairman Bob Hannegan had gone for instructions to the President's private car as it sat on a Chicago siding just before the July convention officially began. The President, closely following the vice-presidential race, had decided to dump both Jimmy Byrnes and Henry Wallace. Worried over the dissension, he allegedly said: "Go on down there and nominate...
...temperatures in Ontario's remote Midlothian township. There Prospector Felix Roche found a seam of gold-rich green rock at least 425 feet wide. The site is reached by portaging through a chain of lakes. Just seven days later, the 36 square miles of Midlothian township were staked solid...
...Methodist bishop, Anti-Saloon Leaguer, head of the World League against Alcoholism; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Chicago. An implacable crusader, the bishop waged a lifetime campaign against "Rome and rum." For a decade, Southern politicians trembled at his disapproval. His 1928 denunciations of Al Smith helped to turn the Solid South toward Herbert Hoover. When his own church accused him of dabbling in Wall Street bucket shops, he wept publicly and pleaded for Christian forgiveness. The church forgave him but his fame began to fade. His first wife, mother of his nine children, died in 1928. In 1930, in London...
...some of the small operators had solid though one-horse experience to back up their claims that they were up to the job. Within Colorado, over the American Hump, four shoestring companies this summer have successfully pioneered in operating feeders. None has had a serious accident...
Jessie Pearl Rice, 42, Georgia schoolteacher, wanted to be a sergeant, instead serves as executive assistant to Colonel Hobby. To solid, jolly but no-nonsense Colonel Rice come male majors, colonels, generals with gripes about the WACs. Her own gripe is that she is stuck in Washington, seldom gets a chance to travel...