Word: unite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bates, returned in September from the scene of battle, traced the internal development of the loyalist army, which he says has transformed it from a manse of political factions, to an integrated unit, capable of concerted aggression...
Freshmen enrolled in the Naval R. O. T. C. unit in the Naval Science department went on their first short cruise yesterday afternoon aboard the U.S.S. Tillman, reserve destroyer familiar to many Harvard naval units...
...majority, carrying Memphis' Shelby County by 60,208 to his opponent's 881. It was never more seriously threatened than it was last week by the same Gordon Browning. In Nashville, a special session of the Legislature passed a bill to put Tennessee primaries on a county-unit basis like Georgia's whereby each county would have one unit vote for every 100 popular votes cast in the last gubernatorial election, with an absolute maximum of ⅛ of 1% of the population. Object of Governor Browning's unit plan was to enlarge the voting power...
...Governor's seat, Gordon Browning promptly broke with his political benefactor by appointing Boss Crump's longtime adversary, Lewis S. Pope, special tax investigator. Opening blast in the current squabble between Boss and Governor was fired by Boss Crump. Said he when he first heard about the unit plan: "The Sneak has the insane desire to go to the United States Senate. He would milk his neighbor's cow through a crack in the fence to accomplish that purpose...
...Governor Browning's unit plan through the House last week, its supporters had to amend the rules so that instead of a two-thirds majority it needed only a simple majority to pass. When it finally passed, 51 to 44. there still remained a fair chance that the victory would prove a hollow one. Tennessee Courts were promptly asked to rule on a claim that five members of the majority which passed it had no right to their seats because they also held other State offices. Even if the five members are not unseated, thus nullifying the passage...