Word: civic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Florida's William H. Johnston is a broad-beamed, red-faced gambling tycoon who likes to play Santa Claus for a children's hospital, act like a civic leader in Jacksonville, and throw his weight around in the state government. In 1948, with two other moneybags, Johnston tossed $450,000 into the campaign kitty of fun-loving Politician Fuller Warren. At first, this seemed a good bet: Warren was elected governor over a Fort Pierce citrus grower named Dan McCarty...
BEFORE he died in 1925, George Bellows summed up his artistic faith in a passionate letter to a critic. "What this world needs," he pleaded, "is Art, Art, and more Art. Art in social, civic, economical relations, in religion, in government. We have a vast deal of science, of flying machines . . . but a great emptiness of imagination, a great barrenness of beauty." Bellows wanted to bring art to ordinary people and he did it by painting things everybody could understand...
...between Hall and Yale it centered about the former's enthusiastic efforts to keep the Bowl filled (and the athletic budget balanced). It is true that this meant scheduling "name" teams, as the CRIMSON pointed out. It also meant selling tickets at reduced prices to a variety of local civic groups ranging from Rotarians to Camp Fire Girls; this sometimes led to a situation where Old Blues were sitting in the end-zone and Four-H Clubbers on the 50 yard line, and Old Blues obviously shook their heads at this...
Angie rolled up the French cuffs on his monogrammed English shirt and set out to make friends high & low. He always got to his office at 8 a.m. He traveled to villages where no American had ever been seen before, delivered speeches in good Spanish before civic groups, labor unions and schoolchildren at the rate of two a week."He has dedicated more sewers, slaughterhouses and clinics than a half-dozen politicians," wrote one admiring Salvadoran newspaperman. Once, when he turned up at a dinner celebrating the opening of a library in dusty Suchitoto (pop. 10,619), he called...
Mulrain called the Ferber taunt "an insult to my hard-working men," challenged his critic to join him in a garbage-seeking tour. The only difficulty was that Mulrain himself had deplored New York's "perennially filthy condition" while urging greater civic pride last February...