Word: won
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...warning to his Democratic opponent, State Highway Commissioner Murray D. Van Wagoner, Oldster Dickinson cackled: "Probably tens of thousands of my friends didn't vote for me, because I'm 81 years of age. . . . You can't blame them." Isolationist Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg won by 8-to-1 over a Detroit razor blade salesman named Bowen R. Grover...
...haired Representative John J. Dempsey, who wrangled the Hatch Act through a balky House last July, found out that there are more ways than one of killing a cat. Behind the well-oiled State machine of District Judge David Chavez Jr. (who sent Dempsey to Congress), Brother Dennis Chavez won the Democratic nomination for U. S. Senator by a whisker. Roared Dempsey : "[There will be] 30 to 40 FBI agents in Santa Fe by nightfall. . . . The people have been intimidated...
President Roosevelt last fortnight signed a bill awarding $592,719 to Inventor Lester Pence Barlow. A nice piece of money. But Mr. Barlow, at home in Baltimore, was still far from happy. He had won his 21-year fight to make the Government pay for an aerial bomb which he invented in 1914, and which the Army used during World War I. But he calculated that taxes would eat up 80% of his reward, lawyers' fees and other expenses would take most of the rest. Said Mr. Barlow: "This case is a perfect explanation of why inventors go nuts...
...many hungry, many bereaved, many injured. Death mounted to over 1,000 at week's end. Nevertheless, all accounts continued to report Londoners' chins and thumbs up, their spirits unbroken. But although bad civilian morale has lost many a war in the past, good civilian morale has won very few. What were the concrete military results of Germany's first week of all-out bombings against the world's greatest city...
...many hundreds of others were still flying on wire leashes last week. The balloon barrage had proved its mettle. Not intended to bring planes down, but to worry them, to keep them up high enough for anti-aircraft fire and too high for accurate bombing, the balloons have won German respect to the extent that whole squadrons concentrate on shooting them down, and Berlin itself has begun to fly a barrage...