Word: units
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the crowd howled approval, Herman took the oath, pledged himself to strengthen the white primary and Georgia's county unit-voting system. Flanked by family and advisers, he marched one flight down to the governor's office, where outgoing Governor Ellis Arnall awaited the legislature's decision. Said Herman: "I have come to take over." Snapped Arnall: "I consider you a pretender. Get out." Herman got, was back in seven hours, after state troopers had changed the locks on the doors. Herman Talmadge held the Capitol and the governor's mansion until the State Supreme...
...know much about practicing." Yearning to match Huey Long and Theodore Bilbo in the Senate, Gene laid his plans carefully for 1938, when Walter George would run again. As with all Talmadge political plans, they revolved around intensive cultivation of Georgia's farmers, for under Georgia's unit-vote system, it is the farmers who hold the balance of power...
...before the concept of a long cold war became a reality. Redefinition of this situation came when Secretary Dulles, as early as last April, saw the problem and presented the solution to it. He pledged a revision of NATO from a purely military alliance to a group of nations united by a common danger and a common philosophy and engaging in multilateral trade. Through such an expedient we could not only effectively weld a bond between ourselves and Europe, but, by means of the revitalizing impetus that trade gives to industry, rebuild Europe into a stronger unit, militarily and economically...
...members of the recently suspended Columbia University unit of Students for Democratic Action yesterday lashed out at the "arbitrary," "high-handed," and "unconstitutional" action taken by the national organization...
...Pusey dedicated a new $5,000,000 building on Boston's Blackfan Street, Brown's hospital had grown into the Children's Medical Center, first of its kind in the world. The center now totals eight buildings, none architecturally impressive, all solid and utilitarian. The new unit, to serve as a children's and infants' hospital, is distinguished mainly by having much of its equipment scaled to its clientele, e.g., the beds come in five sizes...