Word: two
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bill, which leaders in both parties were pledged to support. Blasted out of the Senate Judiciary Committee after nine months of dogged obstruction by Chairman Pat McCarran, the bill would remove the discriminatory provisions of the old D.P. act, and admit an additional 134,000 D.P.s in the next two years...
Once upon a time there were three ambitious men in the United Mine Workers. John L. Lewis kicked out William Green, and then there were two. John L. Lewis had a falling out with Philip Murray and then there...
...these terms of aloof friendship, Pandit Nehru set out to see the U.S. He got the red-carpet treatment, full of pomp, plush and protocol. It began with a night at Blair House as the guest of President Truman, two state dinners, a trip to Mount Vernon, tea with Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. Then came a quiet Sunday visit to Hyde Park to place a wreath on Franklin Roosevelt's grave, a ticker-tape parade through lower Manhattan. At the end of six days he was already beginning to feel overwhelmed. Said Pandit Nehru, smiling: "No one should...
Police wanted to make one more test. Samples of Tommy's blood, of the Thompsons' and of their two children back in Dayton were sent to the University of Michigan hospital, where a doctor ran them through 132 heredity tests. Through the night and until late the next day the Thompsons waited. Then a detective broke the news: "The blood tests show positively that Tommy O'Neill is not your...
...chance of re-election in November than of playing halfback for Harvard. At 74, after 50 years in politics (four terms as mayor, four as a U.S. Representative, one as governor), he had suffered at one time or another from diabetes, arteriosclerosis, hypertension and ingrown eyelashes. He had served two penal sentences (the last, in 1947 for mail fraud) and during his stewardship Boston's debt and high taxes have increased, and its reputation for corruption has not declined...