Word: showdowns
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...each group, which would assure it of a dominant voice in eight drafts instead of six. Mohamed Ali Jinnah sat tight with the British; under the group-voting plan, he had a slight edge over Congress in Groups B and C. The apparent Hindu choices: acceptance, or an immediate showdown with the British and the Moslem League...
...Richelieu-Verchėres by-election in Quebec was the showdown. Having lost three by-elections in a row, the Liberal Party had to win this one. Otherwise there was talk that Prime Minister Mackenzie King might soon call a general election, which the Liberals were by no means sure they could...
...desire for an immediate showdown vote on the U.S. plan for atomic control, Bernard Baruch last week found a majority of the twelve nations in the U.N.'s Atomic Energy Commission against him. Thereupon, after months of inflexible diplomacy, he made his first concession...
Behind the scenes, such thoroughly anti-Russian nations as Britain, Canada and The Netherlands have recently made known their displeasure at U.S. inflexibility. Last week Baruch realized that only two other nations, Australia and Brazil, were still with him in his demand for an immediate showdown...
Flats & Splits. Since they rode in a borrowed Ford together from Chicago to Los Angeles in 1939, the two Jacks had felt that they would have a showdown some day. Kramer, then 18, did the driving, was arrested twice and spent one night in a Nebraska jail. The car burned out a bearing, lost a rod and had plenty of flat tires. There were additional refreshment stops for Bromwich, 20, who became acquainted with banana splits and ate four or five a day. That was the year that Bromwich and Quist upset the U.S. team and took the Cup home...