Word: clippings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must break down the powerful Kump-Holt-Hogg* Statehouse machine. They hit the sawdust trail for Mr. Hatch. In his ranks were also Missouri's Bennett Champ Clark, poignantly interested in crippling the State organization of Governor Lloyd Crow Stark; Georgia's George & Russell, who want to clip the wings of Governor E. D. Rivers...
...last week it was harder to take such a rosy view. Mr. Dewey has had, will get headlines galore. Wisconsin's primary comes April 2. Last week Mr. Taft quietly avoided entering the Wisconsin primary. "Deal!" shouted Deweyites. "A clip in the neck for Buster," smiled the wise boys. Senator Vandenberg is strong in Wisconsin (only primary he has entered). Assumption was that Senator Taft might split the Vandenberg vote. Solemnly Messrs. Taft & Vandenberg denied that they had consulted each other...
Whether ponderous Bob Taft gets the Republican nomination or not, nobody winks at his energetic seriousness. He takes many a clip on the chin but keeps wading in. Still beaming from the Washington embrace, he showed up in Florida to do his stuff. There he added to the file of Calvinesque Taft pictures by letting himself be photographed fishing-coatless but in a store suit...
...foot one inch Junior broke all existing E.I.L. scoring records as a Sophomore with 159 points in the twelve games and seems destined to crack his own mark this year. He has 60 points in four games (a 180 clip if he maintains that pace), 29 of which came against the Penn Quakers as he hung up a new League record for a single game...
Plugging along at a good clip, with a night mistral lashing her buttocks, the Italian motor ship Orazio last week made for Barcelona. She lay 38 miles south of Toulon. Below decks slept 412 passengers -an aviator with his two small children, four nuns warm in their cotton gowns, the noble counselor of the Italian Embassy in Chile, merchants, soldiers, teachers, tourists. On the bridge the petty officers mumbled against French wind, and against the French contraband authorities who had detained the Orazio four hours to search her and take off some Germans. Captain Michele Schiano was a happy...