Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Enough . . . Enough. "But there is one unknown factor in this problem," said Mr. Roosevelt cheerfully. The unknown was rubber scrap. How much rubber scrap is there in the country? The President, with the help of all the citizens and the 400,000 filling-station operators, proposed to find...
Producer George White, once the nearest thing to a successor to Florenz Ziegfeld, filed a petition in voluntary bankruptcy in Los Angeles. The Scandals man was sure that he owed more than $100,000 to certain creditors, listed others with the notation "amount due unknown." Among his assets: a Rolls-Royce standing idle in storage...
Bennet is a political unknown even in the district, though his father served eight years in Congress. But he has a sound political background. He is president of the Newburgh Y.M.C.A., a churchman, a onetime president of the local Chamber of Commerce, a Son of the American Revolution. Last week he got Dewey's backing. He also has the backing of many independent Republicans. What he did not have and would not get was the support of the ancient, cast-iron Republican machine which dominates the district. The district GOPoliticos, backing Fish again, were set to crush any upstart...
...sentimental reunion. Cooking at the White House were some very practical New York State politics. Observers were ready to predict, when Farley came out, that the next Governor of New York was all but elected. The choice: John James Bennett Jr., the State's Attorney General, an unknown to the U.S. at large...
California Democrats are out this year to liquidate Republican Congressman Leland M. Ford*-who is what pinko weeklies call "an arch labor-baiter." To do the trick they picked a well-known name that covered an unknown political quantity. Their candidate: Will Rogers Jr., 29, son of the late, famed humorist...