Word: won
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Little Steel" and Ford. The show over, John L. Lewis clapped on his grey sombrero, lit one of his endless cigars, and lumbered home to read Shakespeare, satisfied that he was victor in his latest convention battle. Busy Sidney hurried back to his defense job. He had not exactly won the war, but he had a good chance to win the peace...
Among the sufferers of last summer's Blitzkrieg were Mon Talisman and Clairvoyant, famous French thoroughbred race horses. From the time of the Nazi invasion their whereabouts was a mystery. Mon Talisman, a magnificent black stallion, had won six firsts and two seconds in eight starts, including the Prix du Jockey Club (French Derby) and Prix du President de la République (richest French handicap). Clairvoyant, his chestnut son, won five firsts in six starts, including the Prix du Jockey Club and the Grand Prix de Paris; altogether won 1,914,650 francs...
Homely, pock-marked little Pedro Aguirre Cerda won his nickname Don Tinto from the tinto (red wine) squeezed from his prosperous vineyards. Friends of the rotos (ragged ones), his Popular Front took control of Chile away from the other haciendados and big businessmen two years ago, made rich Don Tinto President. Last week Chile's rotos showed their approval, voted his man, Aurelio Cruzat, to victory in a Senatorial by-election...
...Tinto had some high cards left. Two of them were the Army and the carabineros (civil guards), without whose support no Chilean revolt could get out of the shouting stage. During the 1938 campaign, which won Aguirre the Presidency, a fascist revolt was viciously suppressed by the carabineros, protecting the outgoing Rightist Government. Last year the mere threat of their guns kept another plot from turning into a revolt against the Popular Front. As long as Don Tinto could keep them in his camp he had little to fear; if he loses them, America's first may become...
...Haven, Conn., 47,000 faithful followers turned out to watch Harvard wallop Yale's sad team 28-to-0, the same day that Princeton won 26-to-19 from Army...