Word: akhoond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wrote Baseball's Akhoond of Swat, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, that he felt it was best for the country to keep professional baseball going during...
...talk. So much availability nettled his boyhood friend, Senator Bennett Champ Clark, who is rather dark-horsy himself. Stark, cracked Clark, was a candidate for President, Vice President, Secretary of the Navy, War, High Commissioner to the Philippines, Ambassador to Great Britain, and "has been favorably mentioned as the Akhoond of Swat." Said Clark, he preferred a less scattered character, would therefore support the incumbent, Senator Harry Truman...