Word: dan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When debonair, mustachioed Elisha Huson Waterman last week became kingpen of L. E. Waterman Co., the 2,000 astonished employes of this famed old fountain-pen concern could well imagine his father, Frank Dan Waterman, turning furiously in his grave. Thirteen years ago, crusty, conservative President Frank Dan kicked Elisha out of his $6,500 job in the company and banished him from the family. Last month, when bitter old Frank Dan died, he left Elisha a mere $100. Scarcely was the Waterman ink dry on the will when Elisha quietly played the trump card he had held...
After three years of war, Elisha Waterman could "only stand one year of Yale," then joined the family company to be groomed as his father's successor. But Frank Dan was dictatorial and standpat. Elisha progressive and pushing; they got along like cat and dog. In 1925. Frank Dan, just defeated by Jimmy Walker for the job of mayor of New York, went back hurt and angry to the job Elisha was all set to take over. Their row on policy was terrific; they never spoke to each other again...
...Wolf Hopper died three years ago and it was about that time that a wizened little septuagenarian from Silver Springs, Md. walked into a Washington newspaper office and presented himself as the original Casey. Dan Casey had been saying it for 50 years in his native Binghamton, N. Y., where he had worked as a trolley-car conductor since retiring from baseball, but no one had paid much attention. In Washington, however, it was different...
Baseball bigwigs, eager to round up all forgotten heroes for next year's centennial, decided that Dan Casey had valid claim to baseball immortality. This spring Oldster Casey, now 76, was rewarded with a lifetime pass to all ball parks, was introduced to the U. S. public on a radio program. Last week, the Baltimore Orioles, whose feats have been almost as integral a part of baseball folklore as Casey's, invited the latest Maryland celebrity to stage a revival of Casey-at-the-bat as a prologue to a night game with the Jersey City Giants...
Sticking to the script, Dan Casey found the first two strikes not his style. Then he took liberties with the original version. Mighty Casey, his blue eyes blazing, smacked the ball into the infield...