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...party in Louisiana, quietly keeping it small so he could hold control until the day when there would be some patronage to pass around.* On hand to plead the Ike cause was John Minor Wisdom, a fiery New Orleans lawyer, who has been trying to enlarge the party and wrest control from Jackson...
...YORK-96. Taft hopes to wrest 6 or more from...
This pair of Harvard students, engaging in a face slapping marathon seeking to wrest the honors from Moscow University in Russia, is a challenge to the common sense of taxpayers to seriously question mounting school costs in America. We here find proof that our school curricula and sillp practices, fostered and promoted under the guise of higher education, is a curious alloy of opposites--a little blending of common sense with a wild hysterical foolishness, promoted or sanctioned by the kaisers of "advanced" education...
...quite a week for Nye Bevan. He was much too shrewd to try now to wrest party control from Attlee, Morrison & Co.: why split the party when things are going his way? "One wave may shudder the cliff," explained a Bevan strategist, "but it's the steady tide that wears it away...
Scott's defeat was never a matter of great regret, but Pierce's election was. The citizen-soldier pursued a reckless and aggressive foreign policy in an effort to wrest Cuba from Spain...