Word: takeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Double Take. In Grand Rapids. Robert Schepperly, after chatting with newly made bar friends, noticed that someone had picked his pocket of $50, went out to look for the thief with his friends, who knocked him down and took the rest of his money...
...Democratic President of the U.S. in 1960. Back in the 1935 Kentucky primary, Happy grabbed the patronage-controlling Governor's chair, parlayed it into a U.S. Senate seat (1939-45) and then-after a showboating interlude as baseball high commissioner (1945-51)-stormed back home by 1955 to take the chair back from his enemies. To become the Democratic nominee for President, Happy must nominate his own successor, and through him establish control of the state delegation to the National Democratic Convention...
...Texas. Losing campaign manager of the primary that Happy won 24 years ago, Clements later beat Chandler forces to become state political boss (1947-55) and U.S. Senator (1950-56). He lost his Senate seat in the 1956 general election to Republican Thruston B. Morton; Enemy Chandler cheerfully takes the credit for switching the critical Democratic votes. In his grim drive to take state party control back from Chandler and control the 1960 delegation, Clements has spent many a day away from the $22,500-a-year job of Democratic senatorial campaign director that Lyndon Johnson...
Faced with an unsympathetic reply from Massachusetts Hall, an organization called the Veritas Foundation--of which Roosevelt is President--decided to take the case to the voters. Forty-five thousand copies of the letter were printed and recently mailed to every living College alumnus. His fellow Trustees--Arthur Brooks Harlow '25 and William A. Robertson '33--joined Roosevelt in signing a covering letter which outlined the "general objective" of their Foundation...
...this letter makes you angry by speaking too plainly, please don't take it out on me. After all, I didn't have a Communist as a an intimate 'girl friend,' didn't contribute money to the Communist party, didn't associate with Communists and employ them in secret Government work or fail to pass security tests. Nor have I lied about the forgoing when questioned thereon. Finally, don't blame me for appointing...