Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drew a simple tribute: "Here is America's greatest doughboy." During the war he held a "Jawbone" (temporary) commission as first lieutenant and was temporary captain for a brief period in 1919, but was eventually returned to his permanent rank of sergeant. Uncomplaining, he re-enlisted as a buck private, cashed out in 1923 as master sergeant after 22 years of service. Since then, balding, weather-beaten, publicity-shy, he has lived like any other Kentucky farmer. To U.S. oldsters who remembered Sam Woodfill's war record, his recall from retirement was not a minute too soon...
...Asbury College '28, A.M. University of Chicago '36, Supervisor of Research and Statistics, Department of Welfare of Virginia, 1936-1941, at present a student in the School; Victor H. Bringe of Madison, Wisc., B.A. University of Wisconsin '41, Administrator of Residence Halls, University of Wisconsin; Robert K. Buck, of Arlington, Va., B.S. Iowa State College '36, M.S., ibid., '39, Associate Agricultural Assistant, Farm Security Administration, United States Department of Agriculture; Reid M. Denis, of Cambridge, Mass., A.B. George Washington University '38, student in the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; John T. Holden, of Cambridge, Mass., A.B. Wesleyan University...
Eugene Edward Buck, the man who rode high and handsome as president of ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers) while it grew into a $7,000,000-a-year business, lost his job last week. ASCAP's directors elected in his stead Critic-Composer Deems Taylor...
...election meant, more than a change of seats, a change of viewpoint. It was the end of an era. Long, lean Songwriter Gene Buck had been since 1925 chieftain of ASCAP, the clangorous music-writing clan that embraces everything from Tin Pan Alley to Rachmaninoff. A friend of Victor Herbert, for 20 years Florenz Ziegfeld's right-hand man, writer of 500 lyrics (Hello, Frisco!, Tulip Time), Buck served ASCAP from 1925 to 1929 without pay. Later he drew a $50,000-a-year salary, which he voluntarily cut to $35,000 a year ago, after ASCAP entered...
...States to outlaw ASCAP by barring price-fixing; the networks won hands down in this fight against ASCAP's high-priced terms. No longer a monopoly, it had to scratch for its feed. Its 1,510 members needed new dignity and new leaders. Genial, dictatorial Gene Buck stood for the old regime. Last month, at the annual ASCAP members' meeting, in Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton Hotel, an enthusiastic ASCAPite proposed that the assembled members rise and intone "God bless Buck" three times. In the confusion that followed, President Buck blushed deeply. But it would have been...