Word: andrews
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Just as a generation of Republicans through the 1870s, '80s and '90s "waved the bloody shirt" and ran for office against Jefferson Davis, so a generation of Democrats through the 1930s and '40s have waved the Great Depression and run for office against Warren Harding, Andrew Mellon and Herbert Hoover. The Democrats' story was that they killed the dragon in 1932 (although it was so long adying that some economic pathologists say it really expired of arteriosclerosis and Pearl Harbor). The Democrats had been paid four times over for their feat, and the Amalgamated Dragonkillers (C.I.O...
...another pressing issue, he also took the counteroffensive: "I stand for honest government," he said. He recalled Republican scandals of the 1920s and added that these were "no worse— ;no more immoral- than the tax laws of Andrew Mellon or the attempt to sell Muscle Shoals to private interests...
Died. Sir Andrew Rae Duncan, 67,chairman of the British Iron and Steel Federation, shrewd, Scottish-born industrialist who was Winston Churchill's Minister of Supply throughout most of World War II; of heart disease; in London...
...dangerous and exhilarating sport in the world. To a climber of the towering Himalayas, it is chiefly dangerous. Above the Alpine altitudes, the rarefied atmosphere brings on an overwhelming lassitude and an indifference to danger. Such a fate may well have overcome Britain's George Leigh-Mallory and Andrew C. Irvine, when the swirling mountain mists cut them off from view in 1924 as they struggled up the last 1,000 feet of towering, forbidding Mt. Everest.* Why do men tackle a forbidding mountain? Mallory had his own understated explanation: "Because it's there...
...Andrew W. Contratto, examining physician at Stillman, reported that a strange virus is attacking students, hospitalizing them from four to five days. This germ is similar to the influenza bug that ran rampant after the first World War, but it is much less serious. When asked whether doctors knew what caused this particular virus. Contratto remarked. "There are so many damn viruses we don't know what to do with them...