Word: welching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...army rations-had sent 9,000,000 relief packages to Europe and Asia. This Christmas season, CARE offered 18 varieties of packages, ranging from the $13.50 holiday parcel (including one canned Sell's turkey, 8 oz. Swanson butter, 1 lb. Crosse & Blackwell plum pudding, 1 lb. Welch's orange marmalade, 1 lb. Sun-Maid raisins, 1 lb. Uncle Ben's rice, 1 lb. Co-op coffee and 1 can-opener) to the $10 layette packages (including 1 doz. diapers, 1 crib blanket, 1 receiving blanket, 2 kimonos, 2 nursing bottles, 4 nipples, 1 pkg. safety pins...
...seasoned state political leader and president of the California State Federation of Labor (A.F.L.), handily captured the ever-Republican Fifth District. But Shelley was the first to admit that the labor-heavy Fifth was just replacing one good union man with an other. His predecessor, the late Richard J. Welch, onetime president of the A.F.L. molders' union, had frequently deserted the Republicans to vote labor. When Welch was alive, Boss Ed Flynn tried to get Shelley to run against him; Shelley not only refused but said that if Flynn put up some other Democrat, "I would stump publicly...
...Lewis '49, Hamblett, David Coombs '49 (Captain), Kenter, Jerry '51, Lawrence, William Gordon '50 Leeming, Joseph, 3d '50, Lockett, Andrew Moore, 3d, '50, McCormick, Patrick Benjamin Michael '50, Nordlinger, Louis Maurice '50, Ruby, Albert Francis, Jr. '50, Trimble, Donald Edward '50, Walsh, Joseph Michael '51, Ward, Lawrence William '50, Welch, Richard Skeflington '51, White, Richard Manning '51, Williams, George Huntington...
...about 90 last week). Kentucky's Virgil Chapman, who had ridden into the Senate on Truman's coattails and voted against him practically ever since, was in for a talk on,party principles-and party patronage! (Friendly Republicans were not overlooked. California's Representative Richard J. Welch and Oregon's Homer Angell found a willing presidential ear for their problems-coast shipping, irrigation, public power...
Swimmer Ris was in Florida. At Daytona Beach's Welch Pools, he sized up his competition for the National A.A.U. zoo-yd. race with a clear water eye. His big feet gripping the tiled rim of the pool, Wally knew just how he would swim this one-in the same slow-starting style that keeps his friends' and coaches' hearts in their mouths until the last...