Word: bove
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some, like Peter Bove, strayed temporarily from the political paths of their fathers. "Came the depression and the grim realities of life and my vote along with a few million others was cast for Franklin D. Roosevelt," Bove writes. "We thought he would save the day. And maybe he did. But when he began to drown the little pigs and plow the wheat fields under my views changed. I became a Republican and have voted so ever since...
...Arthur E. French, Jr., David Guarnaccia, James L. Reid, Richard A. Stout, John Tudor, and William S. Young-man, Jr. were nominated for marshals; Hulburd Johnston and Alan R Sweezy for treasurer; John K. Fairbank, Lawrence T. Grimm, and Norman Winer for orator; Alan R. Blackburn, Peter J. W. Bove and James H. Sachs for Ivy Orator; Robeson Bailey and Peter I. Dunne for poet; Philip Hichborn and Chauncey D. Stillman for odist; and James R. Carter, Richard S. Holden, and Philip H. Rhinelander for choristers...
...area for years, and labor leaders, industrialists and politicians paid him homage. (Once Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City welcomed him home from a European trip with a chartered boat and the Jersey City police band aboard.) But Joey got into trouble: in 1945 he and his pal Jim Bove, vice president of the Hod Carriers Union, got 7½-to-15-year prison stretches for conspiracy to extort $368,000 from contractors for New York City's $300 million Delaware aqueduct. When the iron doors of Sing Sing clanked behind him, the public assumed it had heard...