Word: dave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cheer in their winning team. In the first race, the 150-yard medley relay, Bob Eakin Ed Ginsburg, and Roger Clifton won handily in the time of 1:26.6. Clifton showed his durability when he later took first in the 50-yard freestyle in 25.4 seconds, while teammate Dave Whitman took second...
Last week Harriman made appropriate statesmanoid sounds by delivering a foreign-policy speech to a Democratic "1956 strategy" dinner in Manhattan. Among his hearers were Tammany's Carmine DeSapio, Pittsburgh's Mayor and Boss Dave Lawrence, and Michigan's Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams, who thinks his green bow-tie talisman may lead him to the vice presidency at least. Another guest, National Chairman Butler, brought encouraging words. A few days before the dinner, he told Albany reporters that "many people around the country" favor Harriman for President...
...those who suspected-perhaps unfairly-that Reuther's ambition would keep him out of a federation headed by Meany. But even if his ambition had outrun his convictions, Reuther had little practical chance to stand aloof from Meany's vigorous wooing. The antagonism of the Steelworkers' Dave McDonald and some other C.I.O. leaders toward Reuther was undisguised. The C.I.O. could elect reunion with the A.F.L.-or fragmentation. Whatever the mixture of Reuther's motives, he worked honestly and actively with Meany for a merger that might mean his own partial eclipse...
...Wednesday-night union meetings it soon became clear that Meany was a born leader. Says Dave Holborn, a veteran plumber and an old friend: "George would start out mildly enough, but by the time he finished you could hear him a mile away. Speaking came natural to George, and with very good English, too." He was, says Holborn, "an everything-on-the-level kind of guy-particularly, he was honest." Employers respected George Meany's word...
Jorgensen had earlier eased to a run- away victory over Yale's Dave Armstrong in the 220 with a 2:06.9 clocking against the Eli's 2:11.5. But in a tight race later, Dartmouth's Glover flew to a 22:3 meet record in the 50-yard sprint that upset Yale's Kerry Donovan and prevented the Eli from winning his third consecutive Eastern title for that event...