Word: certain
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Nobody understands better than I do the necessity of the United States maintaining a certain position in world affairs but I still believe that the primary issues of this campaign are American issues-what is going to happen to America." It had taken Willkie three days to get angry, but when he got mad he stayed mad: public slurs had been circulated about his wife, his father, his family. He began giving each train-platform audience a history of each of them-his father's belligerent advocacy of civil liberties, his father's attempt to enlist...
...Most harassed little party was the Communist. In most States a political party must score a certain minimum number of votes to keep its place on the ballot; if it loses its place, must then file nominating papers to get back on. Signatures on Communist nominating petitions were being investigated by the Dies Committee and American Legionnaires, turned over to local prosecutors. Many a signer told investigators he had thought he was approving a new schoolhouse or playground...
...bulk of the registering was done in the morning before 9 o'clock and after classes. It was virtually completed by 3 o'clock. With 30 registrars working all times in each place, there were never any lines. The average rate was two per registrar per hour although certain faculty wives, most noticeably Mrs. Dora Marshall, were pressed...
Pete Elser, Loren MacKinney, George Heiden and Lone Star Dietz were given a rest from the scrimmage as the A and B lines alternated against the third string which fed Army plays to them. The starting center assignment is not yet definite although it is certain that both Ayres and Dietz will see action against the cadets...
Such notices have to be posted every 17 years, Durant explained, in order to affirm the University's title. Otherwise, after a certain period of time the state may claim that the title has lapsed through public...