Word: ariz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Douglas' career in public service began one night in 1922, in the roistering, hillside copper-mining town of Jerome (Ariz.), when a group of citizens sought out a begrimed, grinning mucker and asked him to run for the state legislature on the Democratic ticket. Since then, Lewis W. (for Williams) Douglas, 52, has been led far afield from his chosen career in mining. Last week, President Truman called him from the presidency of the Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York to be United States Ambassador to England. He will succeed North Carolina's O. Max Gardner...
MARGARET HARMAN Parker, Ariz...
Married. Ely Culbertson, 55, autobiographer (The Strange Lives of One Man), high priest of contract bridge turned World Federalist; and Dorothy Renata Baehne (rhymes with sane), 21; he for the second time, she for the first; in Chandler, Ariz...
Died. Chee Dodge, 86, Chief of the Navajos, who for 62 years bossed and guided the nation's largest Indian tribe and the parched, poverty-stricken reservation (three times the size of Massachusetts) on which it lives; in Ganado, Ariz...
...Sooner Said ... In Phoenix, Ariz., service station attendant Dwight Gressley was found shot to death, his dead body slumped over an unfinished letter: ". . . There is a wave of robberies out here and those guys shoot and ask questions afterwards...