Word: cunningham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crass commercialism" was the general candid opinion of the Business School in its embrionic stages back in 1908 when William L. Cunningham, James P. Hill Professor of Transportation, was one of 30 original members of its teaching staff...
Professor Cunningham told an informal gathering of all the Busy School faculty and students Saturday night in Baker Hall that he and his so-called "crass commercialist" had thought enough of their brain-child in the "good old days" to submit to being crowded into cellars and housed in cabby holes for the first few years of its unprogressive development...
Getting off to a paralyzing start did not deter the period of expansion which get under full steam around 1910. Three years later, in 1913, Professor Cunningham told how the University finally fully realized that the little cellar institution was not only a mushroom, but a good...
Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham, 59, was the only likely choice to head the naval forces, U.S. and British, on which General Eisenhower must depend for his invasion fleet as well as his supplies...
Eisenhower's elevation to a full general, giving him equal rank with Marshall and MacArthur, seemed to be only a matter of time. By the account of newspaper dopesters, a British General (Alexander), Admiral (Cunningham) and an Air Marshal (Tedder) will serve under him, as will French General Giraud. Only 23 months ago Ike Eisenhower had been a lieutenant colonel, five ranks and a million years below four stars...