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...Liberal defeat in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, a Liberal seat since 1935, was harder to swallow. The party sent out its biggest wigs to woo the voters. They only succeeded in making it close. Winner: Calvert Charlton Miller, a 47-year-old lawyer...
...zone with all or any of the other zones. Byrnes understood why the Russians did not want unified administration. The Russian reasons were: 1) Russian booty hunger, which would be curbed by unified administration, and 2) the Russians' realization that they were losing their campaign to woo the Germans into siding with them against the Western powers...
...that it was high time to do something about the coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats that was hamstringing Harry Truman's legislative program. The something they decided on: a series of five "unity" dinners for Democratic Congressmen at Washington's plush Mayflower Hotel. The idea: to woo back into line Southerners and others who have strayed over to the opposition. Groups of 40 to 50 Congressmen were invited to each of the dinners, at which the salad will be mixed with solid talk about party solidarity in election year...
...gittle, giddle-di-ap, giddle-de-tommy, riddle de biddle de roop, da-reep, fa-san, skeedle de woo-da, fiddle de wada, reep...
...serious matters. Playwrights Lindsay & Grouse, authors of Life With Father, have vaulted from Father Day to Uncle Sam, from family crotchets to political criticism. With the war ended and self-interest back at the old stand, Lindsay & Grouse are pleading for national unity. But they are shrewd enough to woo their audiences with laughter rather than weary them with lecturing...