Word: meade
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Loyal, mediocre Democratic Senator James Michael Mead had a plurality nearly double Franklin Roosevelt's in New York. He also had a winning lead (7-6) over Republican Bruce Barton. Barton's former seat in the House was won by Republican Kenneth Simpson...
Attorney General Robert H. Jackson was to be appointed Chief Justice, whenever Olympian Charles Evans Hughes retired. Frank Walker was not expected to remain Postmaster General; one possibility was that Senator James Mead of New York would be appointed to this post...
...RIDDLE OF THE SANDS-Erskine Childers-Dodd, Mead ($2). From Brunsbüttel to Borkum two Englishmen poked a seven-tonner between the shifting Frisian sands and into Imperial Germany's British-invasion preparations. No ordinary spy story, this is a reprint of a soundly calked yarn of pre-World War I days. To the small-boat sailor its puzzle of channels and fog is better than any cadaver by the mizzen...
...FACE OF THE VERDICT-John Rhode-Dodd, Mead ($2). Dr. Priestley, scientist, again works with Supt.Hanslet and Inspector Jimmy Waghorn. Major Bedworthy is drowned near Blacksand. Accident, says the jury. Maybe, says his friend and neighbor. Priestley plows around in rubber boots among motives of sex and money...
...TROJAN HORSE IN AMERICA-Martin Dies-Dodd, Mead...