Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...efforts with organized labor. We will work to elect Congressmen, Senators and a President who will give agriculture a better break. We will give all candidates from the presidential ones on down our views, written and verbal. We'll furnish material for their speeches. We'll even write their speeches for them if they want...
...Massachusetts, House Majority Leader John McCormack got 28,500 write-in votes to 19,500 for Adlai Stevenson. Before the election, Estes Kefauver, who had not campaigned in the state, and had little visible support there, piously asked his "supporters" to vote for popular John McCormack, but Estes could certainly claim no share of the victory. On the Republican side, Dwight Eisenhower won 52,400 write-in votes and the support of all delegates. The biggest straw: John McCormack is more popular than Adlai Stevenson in Massachusetts, and Eisenhower is more popular than either...
...England settlers, including Roger Williams, Chafee was born in Providence R.I. on December 7, 1885. He was raised there and attended the town's university. At Brown, which the left in 1907 carring a Phi Betta Kappa Key, a summa citation, and an A.B., Chafee's chief interests were writing and Latin translation. In fact, he considers his two greatest achievements to be drafting the Federal Inter-pleader Act of 1934 and translating the anonymous Latin Poem Pervigilium Veneris while at Brown. After a few years of working for his father's manufacturing firm, reading Blackstone, and being bored, Chafee...
...talked of "party leaders of that time who were wrongly declared to have been enemies of the people." Adding insult to injury, Mikoyan named Khrushchev's liquidated predecessor Kossior as one such and asserted, to the sound of laughter, that "Ukrainian historians will be found who will write a history of the emergence and development of the Ukrainian socialist state better than some Moscow historians." The speech, opening up the whole case against Stalin, and by indirection the complicity of his associates, was a sensation...
...cabooses seen from the side."), swapping photographs (Advertised Mr. G. A. Porter of Savannah, Ga.: "8 X 10 neg. of A-AWP supplement to emp. tt. governing train carrying body of Jefferson Davis from New Orleans to Richmond, May 29, 1893. 10 cents each. Timetable fans and Confederate collectors write."), and attending mass meetings to hear reports from local railroad vice-presidents...