Word: swing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Duplessis victory threw this week's Liberal Convention in Ottawa wide open. Many a Liberal still figured that Louis St. Laurent-was the man to swing waning Quebec Liberal strength back into line. Not so Quebecker and onetime Air Minister Charles Gavan ("Chubby") Power, who had managed the Liberal campaign in Quebec, and seen St. Laurent in action. At week's end Chubby Power announced that he would be available for the Liberal leadership himself...
...Swing into Sports (Mon. 8:30 p.m., Du Mont Television). Tennis specials. M.C.: Sarah Palfrey Cooke...
When General "Jumping Joe" Swing, First Corps commander, came in from Corps Headquarters in Kyoto, 11 hours after Fukui's tragic earthquake (TIME, July 12) he asked TIME Correspondent Carl Mydans "How did you know there was going to be a quake here...
...earthquake was the second eventful occasion in Mydans' life in which General Swing figured-the first having been when he accompanied the General, then commander of the 11th Airborne Division, back into Japan on occupation day, August...
...announcement made the convention a real contest. It gave hope to all candidates, including such dark horses as Lester B. ("Mike") Pearson and Brooke Claxton, Paul Martin, Clarence Decatur Howe, Douglas Abbott and Charles Gavan ("Chubby") Power. Because of mechanical differences, Canadian conventions are not so easy to swing or control as U.S. conventions: the delegates vote individually by secret ballot; no candidate may rise to withdraw and publicly switch his support to another...