Word: spaded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What were President Weizmann's hopes for the new state? That "God will look down benignly on His children who after a long wandering have come home to serve Him with a psalm on their lips and a spade in their hands." He was also wistfully hop ing that Israel might still find its way back to friendship with his old love, Britain...
...freehanded giveaway show Stop the Music (19.2%) and Walter Winchell (who currently leads the field with the top Hooper of 29.7%), ABC has clearly distanced its older rivals. Hardest hit in the percentage battle is bag-eyed Fred Allen, who dropped below CBS's Adventures of Sam Spade, as well as ABC's Stop the Music...
...face of an organizing drive by the Amalgamated, that probably wouldn't be very many or for very long. The Amalgamated has a membership of 375,000, a treasury of $6,000,000, and a hustling set of hard-nosed organizers. For the Amalgamated's president, spade-bearded Jacob Potofsky, Russian-born but no Communist, an elegant old warhorse of trade unionism, it was a fine opportunity. An estimated 6,000,000 store workers in the U.S. are still unorganized...
...scuffle for election as U.S. Senator from the Commonwealth this year is a friendly one, devoid of low blows and rabbit punches. Neither Senator Leverett Saltonstall nor the challenger, John I. Fitzgerald, have called each other a spade, and whispers are currently inaudible. The two nominees are old friends, having served together in the State Legislature. Their sons served together overseas in World...
...Hall jolly-up known officially as an "informal dance," started our the same way, but the foursome shown above added a new wrinkle bridge. They are, from left to right. Muriel Kaplan, Radcliffe '49, Jean Armstrong, Radcliffe '49, Martin S. Fox 3L and Rarry M. Williams 11. The four-spade contract went down one trick, doubled and vulnerable...