Word: bille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because of this, the rumor persisted that he planned to unseat Tobin. But he has enormous power with Tobin in office and will probably get more. The notion that he is scheming to succeed Bill Green as president of the A.F.L. also seems unsound-it is a post to which strong men are not elected...
Explained William Theodore ("Wild Bill") Evjue, editor of the Times and president of the new combined publishing company: "The plan . . . will give complete editorial independence to each news-paper, while providing the financial stability . . . necessary [to] a free and vigorous press...
...Sportsman. To most Wisconsin readers, free and vigorous Bill Evjue (pronounced Ev-you), 66, was the best guarantee that Madison's newspapers will stay that way. Born in Wisconsin of Norwegian stock and educated at the University of Wisconsin, Evjue became managing editor of the Journal at 29. In 1917, when the paper attacked the late great Senator Robert M. LaFollette for his pacifism, Evjue quit to found the Times. (He later edited LaFollette's Progressive on the side.) The Times has been expressing Evjue's strident personality ever since. From the start, Evjue faced a financial...
...good old days, when Carnegie Tech made no bones about buying football talent, Halfback Wild Bill Donohoe was a pigskin hero. One unforgettable Saturday in 1926, after he and his teammates whittled Notre Dame down to size (19-0), Wild Bill was toasted far into the welkinrung night. But, alas for heroes, the same Wild Bill Donohoe, on the same campus, was now the goat...
After his playing days were over, Wild Bill had become a coach; two years ago, he came back to his alma mater. By last week he had made a perfect record-19 uninterrupted defeats. Every time the word football came up, his friends thoughtfully changed the subject...