Word: chris
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gagged ten years ago on Democratic bureaucracy. Last week, completing a count of absentee and shut-in ballots that has dragged on since Nov. 20, weary election supervisors finally confirmed Denny Roberts' fears. Winning by a slim 427 votes out of almost 390,000 cast, stocky, greying Chris Del Sesto, 49, was elected Rhode Island's first Republican governor in 16 years...
...decision in, Chris Del Sesto last week planned towards a double goal: molding a good administration and rebuilding Rhode Island's Republican Party. In the latter assignment he was receiving assistance from an unexpected quarter. Disheartened Denny Roberts took court action to have 5,602 tide-turning absentee and shut-in ballots disqualified. But a sizable number of Democrats were disgusted by his antics. Said one angrily: "Roberts has done to the party in minutes what the G.O.P has failed to do in years...
...Chris Herter's life has been shaped for his new job. Born in Paris of American parents, he studied interior decoration in New York, left to accept a minor post with the U.S. embassy in Berlin in 1916. At the Versailles conference, he served as aide to U.S. Delegate Joseph Clark Grew, later became executive secretary of the European Relief Council and traveled around ravaged Europe with Relief Chief Herbert Hoover...
...Under Secretary of State. Herter, 61, will be a smooth-paced replacement for an Under Secretary whose administrative talents sometimes outpaced his policymaking skills. President Eisenhower accepted Herbert Hoover Jr.'s resignation with "deep regret," paid tribute to Hoover's "outstanding ability and dedication." And Chris Herter's friends quickly pointed out that he would make a logical successor to Secretary of State John Foster Dulles if, when and for whatever reason Dulles bowed...
...sophomore, Herter and a group of friends rented the entire top floor of Apthorp House, the old colonial building in the courtyard of Apley Court. "Our room was the envy of the rest of the class," one roommate recalled, "since Chris's mother did the decorating job for us." This group stayed together through their senior year, moving into Holworthy their final year--the privilege of being a senior in those days...