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...there were deeper, more fatal defects. The Democrats' own board of directors was sadly divided. One split was the final revolt of the Southern conservatives against the New Dealers. Another came with the huffy retirement of such top-rank officers as Harold Ickes and Henry Wallace from the Cabinet...
...usual, the complexities of a Uruguayan election were enough to make even a Frenchman's head swim. The predominant; Colorado (Red) Party-liberal, democratic, and international-was split into four groups, each with its own presidential aspirant. The leader of the Batllista faction, suntanned ex-farmer Tomás Berreta, 70, had the best chance to win. The Blanco (White) Party had dissidents, too, but for the moment they were united behind the presidential candidacy of tall, white-thatched Luis Alberto de Herrera, 73. Herrera, "last of the South American caudillos" ("chiefs"), had for 30 years given the Blancos...
...discovers a budding young pianistic genius on a Pennsylvania farm in the person of Myra Hassman, who plays the Concerto twenty-seven times and addresses Goronoff incessantly as "Maestro." At her New York debut she plays guess what too well to suit Goronoff's touchy ego, so they split and she marries a Pennsylvania farmer who's Almost as good and kind as he is stupid. After a number of obvious events masquerading as developments, one of which has Myra's daughter play the thirty-third excerpt from the Concerto, Myra discovers that she doesn't love Concnoff after...
...Split into two leagues of five Colleges each, the Elis closed their intramural season Wednesday with Calhoun topping Pierson for the championship in a playoff between the leaders of the two loops...
Meeting in Emerson Hall, 150 members of the chapter argued the motion for half an hour, following its presentation by the Veterans Affairs Committee which was evenly split on this phase of policy. The final vote was heavily in favor of the plan, which at this time would call for a general raise in veterans' allowances...