Word: dan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...choice to succeed him two years hence. But popular "Raddy" Radford had led the Navy's revolt against unification in 1949, was anathema to the Air Force, whose giant B-36 bomber he scornfully labeled a "billion-dollar blunder," and had been called a "fancy Dan" by Omar Bradley. The morning before Sherman's funeral, Radford went to Navy Secretary Dan Kimball, asked that his name be withdrawn for the good of the Navy. And then there were four...
Distinctly not the kind of man a voter would expect to find tied up with an administration noted for graft, extortion and embezzlement, Dan Poling promptly let it be-known that he planned to install some new piston rings to clean up that exhaust. He would call a meeting of civic leaders to reorganize Philadelphia Republicanism, he said, and start "a veritable crusade for honest, efficient government...
Democrats, who first cracked the Republican stronghold by winning four important City Hall jobs in 1949, nominated City Controller Joseph S. Clark Jr. for mayor, and City Treasurer Richardson Dilworth, a socialite turned Fair Deal street orator, for district attorney. Despite Dan Poling's respected name, there is still a chance that in November Philadelphia will elect its first Democratic mayor in 67 years...
When word of the floggings got out, the Denver Post cried "savage." Governor Dan Thornton hurried to Canon City to investigate. Best, a former president of the Wardens of America Association, was not afraid of the governor or anybody else. Said he: "I have used [the strap and wooden horse] through nine governors and I'll keep on using them, unless I'm specifically ordered to abandon them by the governor. I don't like to whip another human being. But these five men were dangerous. If they had been able to escape and free...
...Cobb (.367), Rogers Hornsby (.358), Dan Brouthers (.348), Ed Delahanty (.346), Willie Keeler (.345), Tris Speaker (.344). Babe Ruth and Jess Burkett also...