Word: placed
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...antilabor; fought a bitter campaign for the governorship against a Jewish banker and slapped down attempts to inject anti-Semitism into the campaign; for the first time in U. S. history has made one of the 3,070 county District Attorney's offices a jumping-off place for a major-party run for the Presidency. He has a quick political eye that would be useful in a hard campaign: reading the morning paper one day a fortnight ago he spotted President Roosevelt's $9,000,000,000 error in his remarks on the national debt, got his economic...
Meanwhile the mob had congealed in Stockton's four corners, yelling at the Negro women, asking them "How would you like to have this [rope] around your neck?" Terrified Lillian Blake promised to lead them to her man's hiding place. Someone pointed out that the two women, both barefoot, could walk faster if they were shod. A committee crowded into a store to buy shoes...
...League standings go, Harvard is now in a fifth place tie with Columbia, a game and a half ahead of Penn and a game and a half behind Yale...
...last place or no last place, Penn will be nobody's walkover, especially on their home grounds. The Red and Blue ran up an amazing total of 61 points against the league-leading Dartmouth Indians Wednesday night only to lose by one point in one of the year's most exciting games...
...looks as though Dartmouth is in first place to stay after the Elis' victory over Princeton, 50 to 38, Thursday night