Word: speaker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...showdown. To head him off, Governor Gates (who could not legally succeed himself), had lined up three candidates. On the first ballot, Jenner ran far ahead. On the second, Governor Gates ordered the other three to pool their strength. Jenner wound up well behind Nominee Hobart Creighton, hefty Speaker of Indiana's House, famed among farmers as the biggest chicken & egg breeder in the U.S. (TIME...
...been a power in the Mexican countryside. They met, under their own Nazi-style red-white-green party flags, at the command of secret leaders. Around Mexico City they could rally 30,000 illiterate "soldiers" at a few hours's notice. There would be a big parade, then speakers would mount a platform in the plaza and call for cheers - cheers for Christ the King, cheers for the Virgin of Guadalupe. When the speaker shouted: "Who robs Mexico of its oil?" the crowd would answer: "The U.S." "Who takes the products of Mexico's mines...
Right-Winger Dezso Sulyok; and Father Bela Varga, once Speaker of Hungary's Parliament...
Fifth Ballot et seq. If Dewey has failed on the third, and Vandenberg has not shown a commanding upsurge on the fourth, the race will go to the best behind-the-scenes trader-Speaker Joe Martin, Pennsylvania's Senator Ed Martin, California's Governor Earl Warren or anybody else on whom the party's leaders can agree...
...Imagine that!" the big hammer thrower said, mopping sweat from his face, "getting beat by a little guy like that." The speaker was 262-pound Shorty Folsworth, the place Lincoln, Nebraska's Memorial Stadium last July and the "little guy" Harvard's Samuel M. Felton, Jr. '48 who had just finished second in the National AAU 16-pound hammer throw with a shot of 172 feet, 5 inches...