Word: austin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Patrick Austin ("Paddy") Nash, 80, both Nash and dash of Chicago's famed Kelly-Nash political machine; of pneumonia; in Chicago. Son of an Irish immigrant contractor, short, derbied Nash moved early to the West Side, whose con trol he gradually took over from his political tutor, the 28th (then 14th) Ward's famed Roger Sullivan. Until nearly...
...Scottish-born, 40-year-old Alexander B. Austin began his dispatch one day last week to the London Daily Herald. He filed it, climbed into a jeep with three other British correspondents: stocky, thirtyish William J. Munday of the London News Chronicle; mild-mannered, 38-year-old Stewart Sale of Reuters; Basil Gingell of the British Exchange Telegraph agency...
...tank suddenly wheeled and fired. In the blinding explosion Alexander Austin and two of his friends came to the end of the road of death. When the smoke and dust had cleared, only Basil Gingell was alive...
...draft-age students, was booming despite the war, hoped to exceed its 1936 record of 4,034 registrants. The school had come a long way from its small, but distinguished, beginnings. Among the founders in 1919 was no less a quartet than James Harvey Robinson, Thorstein Veblen, Charles Austin Beard and John Dewey. To get the academic dust out of their lungs they set up their own school in a musty Victorian house in New York's Chelsea district. In 1922 Johnson took over the institution...
Unlike many a war-baby boss, Austin does not worry over absenteeism. His workers wander off at any time to do chores, tend their bees, chickens and strawberry plants. Nor does he worry over profits. Said he: "We aren't exactly doing this to make money. What would we do with it? We're just having some...