Word: bolt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard band of 116 pieces will take the field in the Yale bowl tomorrow led by baton-twirling Stuart H. Cowen '42. Coming on the gridiron the band will play "The Harvard Graduate School March," a new song by the band's conductor James W. Bolt, Jr. 3Dn. Between halves, besides going through several intricate formations, the group will entertain the crowd with "Harvard, Good Night," "Wintergreen," "Our Director," and "Fair Harvard...
...recent bolt of John L. Lewis from the New Deal will result in the elevation of the present number two man in the C I O even if Willkie elected, Thomas believes. Labor may benefit, he said, as "Murray is in many ways a better man than Lewis, though lacking his personal influence...
Then John Lewis shot his last bolt. Said he: "President Roosevelt will not be re-elected for the third term unless he has the overwhelming support of ... labor. If he is, therefore, re-elected ... I will accept the result as a vote of no confidence, and will retire as president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations at its convention in November...
...Ross has rubbed shoulders with many a leper. But lightning, not leprosy, set him off on his mission career. In 1901 a bolt struck a toy telephone he had strung in school, narrowly missed killing a Negro student named Jacob Kenoly. Student Ross never forgot. Later Kenoly founded a mission school in Liberia and was drowned while fishing for his scholars' supper. On the day that Emory Ross got a letter telling him of Kenoly's death and asking him to take his place, he was offered a good job in a bank. For once lightning struck twice...
...Biggest bolt was the New York Times supporter of Franklin Roosevelt in 1932 and 1936, and a bolter only twice before in its history-both times against William Jennings Bryan, 1896, 1908. The Times gave 2,500 reasoned words for its shift, but to the public and the rest of the press the simple fact was sufficient...