Word: weekend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...legislators under their calloused thumbs. The House rammed through most of the governor's bills by whopping majorities, would pass the rest this week. The Senate was set to do the same. Nevertheless, a good many lawmakers bedded down in Baton Rouge's Heidelberg Hotel over the weekend: they were afraid to go home and face the music from their constituents...
Crimson dinghy skippers concluded their season on the Charles River Basin over the weekend by beating out 11 other colleges for the Boston Dinghy Club...
Good for the Heart. Elizabeth had a busy weekend-presentation by President Vincent Auriol of the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor, a gala evening at the opera, a speech to read on Franco-British unity. Said she: "If we are to escape destruction, we must work for the breakdown of prejudices born of narrow-minded nationalism." Her French was excellent. Said a bystander: "She speaks much better than Churchill."* But Philip, who occasionally neglects royalty's duty to look cheerful, listened somewhat gloomily. There were breaks in the official routine. One night Elizabeth and Philip danced until...
...Wanna make a few hundred over the weekend, B,ud, driving a new Buick across the border?" If Bud did, and didn't mind smuggling, he got behind the wheel and purred south. At the border town of Laredo, a tourist card could be bought for $2.10. From Laredo south to Monterrey is only 146 miles over good roads, and at Monterrey a pickup would take the Buick, and sell...
Delegates recently elected to attend the National Student Association at Madison, Wisconsin in August received their first experience under fire last weekend at a Northern New England Regional meeting held at Fort Devens. The purpose of the meeting was to prepare reports and draw up recommendations for presentation at the Madison conference...