Word: davids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Slipping on a tan raincoat and battered fedora, Pittsburgh's Mayor David Leo Lawrence last week climbed into a borrowed Oldsmobile, drove through the steel city's uncertain October weather to campaign for reelection. Like the shrewd old political boss that he is, "King David" stopped at a funeral, hopped up Eleventh Ward followers to turn out the vote, popped up at rallies of the United Steelworkers and the Serbian Progressive Club. Like the latter-day apostle of civic progress that he has become, he never missed a chance to mention his "better Pittsburgh," with its smog-free...
...newspapers had endorsed his reelection, the machine was rolling, and Dave Lawrence was on the way to a fourth term. There were few who would say him nay, despite such displays of untidy municipal housekeeping as potholes in the streets and frequent scandal in the police department. For King David, on behalf of bosses everywhere, had tested a new proverb and proved its wisdom: in time of prosperity one towering skyscraper is the equivalent of 7,000 city jobs...
...also honored a famed scientist last week: Physicist Niels Henrik David Bohr, one of the fathers of atomic fission. President Eisenhower went to Washington's National Academy of Sciences to address the meeting as Bohr received the first Atoms for Peace Award, a gold medal and a $75,000 tax-free "honorarium" put up by the Ford Motor...
Students from New York and New England will soon have an opportunity to finance their college education by loan plans outside the University, David B. H. Hadden, an official of the Massachusetts Higher Assistance Corporation, stated yesterday...
JERUSALEM, Oct. 29--A bomb hurled from the public gallery injured Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and four of his ministers in Parliament tonight. Social Welfare Minister Moshe Shapira was wounded seriously. The others escaped with lesser hurts...