Word: majority
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year of confusion and crisis, Sir Stafford Cripps emerges as the man who, for better or worse, did more than any other person to dislocate the economy of a major portion of the earth...
Last week the voters of the State of New York brought in their verdict. It was for the welfare state. In the first major election since Harry Truman's 1948 "mandate," they elected Lehman to the Senate by a majority...
...triumphant Democrats were led by Richardson Dilworth, firebrand Yale-trained lawyer, ex-Marine major, and local leader of the Fair Dealing Americans for Democratic Action (A.D.A.). Working with him was Joseph Sill Clark Jr., a Chestnut Hill socialite. As treasurer and controller respectively, two new Democratic officials will take charge of the city's much-abused purse...
...item on the Eli side is the fact that it has a tremendous advantage in scouting. No one from Harvard has seen Yale play, but veteran Yale coach Wait Leeman will know almost everything there is to know about the Crimson. His chief scout--and he has scouted every major Harvard game--is James MacDonald, Harvard's coach of two years...
This increased freedom to study in "unrelated fields" came into effect two years ago after ten years of study initiated when Seymour took office. In addition, the Yale undergraduate can take an almost unlimited number of courses in the graduate schools and may even major in a field in which a graduate school offers the only courses available...