Word: davey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Playing his last game of professional football for the Philadelphia Eagles, fighting little Davey O'Brien (weight 151 lb.) not only bounced intact out of every tackle but set a new record by throwing 33 successful forward passes. Then he hung up his jersey, prepared to go to work for the Federal Bureau of Investigation...
...reminiscent of the days when well-oiled U. S. Republican machines ran almost everything that moved. Although it couldn't carry the State for Wendell Willkie, silver-haired Governor John William Bricker rode in on it ahead of his Democratic opponent, natty, spatty Tree Surgeon Martin Luther Davey...
Competitive-minded Sir William did not take this lying down. Said he, for U. S. consumption, in a cable to William H. Davey, Cleveland steel man and a director of the largest subsidiary of Richard Thomas: "So far as I am concerned everything is 1,000,000% above board. The new plant is a great success. . . . Cash position is splendid. . . . Objecting to my criticism . . . they [the board] have tried to persuade me to resign. I flatly refused in order to force them to accept the responsibility for my dismissal. . . . Like our Armies, I am fighting . . . for justice...
...every first and second place in the next four events, finally assuring a Harvard victory with Bosworth's win in the 150-yard dorsal race in 1:40.7, his best time. The overwhelming display of power was featured by Captain Rick Cutler's 2:17.8 first in the furlong, Davey (Club) Stearns' triumph in the 50, George Dana's upset victory in the dive with 103.53 points, and Jim Curwen's a 55.6 100 free style...