Word: battlers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wall Street speculator to become the most powerful and most debated railroad tycoon of his day. As board chairman of the New York Central, the nation's second biggest railroad, and an important voice in several other roads, Bob Young had collected all the prizes of a champion battler: wealth, power, glittering friends (the Duke and Duchess of Windsor et al.), palatial homes in Palm Beach and Newport...
Akins, the church deacon from St. Louis who waited for the Boston battler to punch himself out, finished the bout with a jarring right uppercut and Referee Eddie Bradley stepped in to call a halt at 1:53 of the round...
...Siles, the U.S. is backing a battler. To keep his program from being junked or sidetracked. Siles has gone on a hunger strike, threatened to resign, taken to the road to talk down an impending general strike. Much of his trouble has been spawned by left-wing elements in his own Nationalist Revolutionary Movement (M.N.R.). led by Labor Boss Juan Lechín, who has helped turn Bolivia's biggest dollar earner, tin mining, into a mismanaged, worn-out featherbed for his followers. But last month Siles pushed Lechín to the sidelines by dissolving the leftist-dominated...
...investigators are dictator-hating New Dealer Morris L. Ernst, who has spent most of his career as a pugnacious battler for civil rights, and Republican William H. Munson, an ex-district attorney and New York State Supreme Court justice. The publicist: Sydney S. Baron, speechwriter for Tammany Boss Carjnine De Sapio. Under the agreement, the lawyers and their crew of private investigators will have free access to any persons or documents in the Dominican Republic, will be free to publish their findings without censorship. "We know of no analogous instance," said De Moya, "when a sovereign state voluntarily has requested...
Cried Author George R. (Storm) Stewart, professor of English at the University of California and veteran battler against California's regents' loyalty oath: "I am walking out. I will return to the University of California, where I shall inform my colleagues that the action you have taken here is tyrannous. I shall also tell them that they should wear their censure proudly as a badge of torture given by a tyrant." Added Frederic Heimberger, professor of political science at Ohio State: "As a member and loyal supporter of the A.A.U.P. for 25 years, I am shocked and dismayed...