Word: stronghold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...South demonstrated last week that its hooligans were politically impartial. Three days after Henry Wallace had withdrawn northward in a shower of garbage, Republicans staged a rally in industrial Kingsport, a G.O.P. stronghold in mountainous eastern Tennessee. Fourteen thousand people crowded into a parking lot and overflowed into the street. They were there to hear ex-National Chairman Carroll Reece, candidate for U.S. Senator, and Fiddler Roy Acuff, nominee for governor...
...part of their wages. As the unions ran them, jobs were filled from a list of union men registered at the halls. It was clearly discriminatory; non-union men could get jobs only when there were not enough union men to fill them. Thus the hiring hall became a stronghold of union security. But it brought a measure of peace to the nation's waterfronts...
Vaudeville, long since pronounced dead, had never looked more alive. Last week, on the boards of its old stronghold, Manhattan's Palace Theater (which surrendered to the movies in 1932), vaudeville was the star at the opening of the newest U.S. television station, American Broadcasting Co.'s WJZ-TV. The first show, from 7 o'clock until nearly midnight, featured all of vaudeville's tried & true turns: a dog act, a comedy team of acrobats, tap and ballroom dancers, comedians, songbirds, straight men. Gus Van (of venerable Van & Schenck) did a tear-jerking ballad about...
Godbout had lost his own seat in the Quebec legislature. St. Laurent's own riding had been carried by Duplessis' Union Nationale. Union Nationale had swept all four constituencies in Quebec City, regarded as a Liberal stronghold. Before election, the Liberals held 33 seats in the legislature; now they have eight. Funny-money L'Union des Electeurs elected none of its 92 candidates, the socialist CCF's seven candidates were all defeated, and so was the lone Communist. One Nationalist and one Independent squeezed in. Union Nationale, which had 52 seats before, will now have...
What George Polk (see above) and every other Balkan correspondent yearned to do, the New York Herald Tribune's Homer Bigart up & did. He found and interviewed Greek guerrilla General Markos in his Grammos Mountain stronghold. This week, after sitting on it for more than a fortnight (presumably to avoid competing with convention news), the Trib ran his interview as a four-part series. It tingled with some of the cloak-&-dagger thrills of an Eric Ambler novel...