Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...narrowly lost to Taft at the raucous G.O.P. Convention, which was described by Mr. Dooley as "a combination iv th' Chicago fire, St. Bartholomew's massacre, the battle iv th' Boyne, the life iv Jesse James and th' night iv th' big wind." Then T.R. formed a third party (Bull Moose) and ran in the election. By splitting the Republican vote, he enabled Democrat Woodrow Wilson to win. In 1920 a combination of war-weariness and opposition to Wilson's single-minded support of the League of Nations returned the Republicans to power...
...brand new, push-button telephones in the 26th-floor editorial offices overlooking Manhattan's Central Park are brilliant red. So is the floor -fire engine red. "I painted it myself," boasts Publisher Bartle Bull, 36, as he flips through, a stack of folders that are also, well, red. Bull, former publisher of the Village Voice, and Editor Dennis Smith, 35, fire fighter and bestselling author (Report from Engine Co. 82, The Final Fire), are ablaze with enthusiasm for their new monthly magazine. The scarlet letters on the charter issue due out Sept. 10 read Firehouse...
...week answering alarms at Coop City in The Bronx: "The magazines written for firemen are all technical. They do nothing to reinforce a fireman's positive image about himself." To change that, Smith decided to find a publisher and start his own magazine. A friend introduced him to Bull, who had wanted to get out of the Voice ever since New York magazine's Clay Felker took it over...
Hooked on Ladders. Taken by Smith's idea, Bull raised $500,000 from old Harvard classmates and other investors. He and Smith compiled a national mailing list (there was none for fire fighters) by cashing in on Smith's reputation as a firehouse folk hero. A letter went out to 30,000 fire chiefs asking them to send in the names of their men. The reward, an autographed copy of Engine Co. 82, brought in 133,000 names...
...coaxing and coddling the delegation, Reagan and Gerald Ford were dealing with a highly unpredictable beast. It is a shaky coalition of men and women, most of whom had bravely bolted the Democratic Party in the early 1960s, and a more recent group of "Bull Moosers," who are more aggressively seeking public office for the party or themselves...