Word: diamonditis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first jobs was to clean up skinny, bullet-pocked Legs Diamond's gang. His record since has been both unspectacular and unmarred by scandal. As a public official he is colorless, likable, efficient. He has earned the loyalties of friends; smart and ambitious (for six years he has yearned to be Governor), he has visited every city and hamlet in the State during his five campaigns, probably knows more voters than anyone but his gregarious mentor, Jim Farley himself...
...officials feel that the Kid is responsible for a reduced ratio of waste and for redoubled suggestions from employes. Two of the posters have been lithographed and distributed to 7,000 Douglas suppliers, also to some 450 other industries. Among the firms using Tokio Kid posters are Vultee Aircraft, Diamond Tool, Chrysler, Remington Rand, Westinghouse, Western Electric, Carnegie-Illinois Steel. No other wartime Industrial poster has caught on like the Kid. This week the Treasury began using him to sell war bonds...
...losing to Yale 3 to 1, last Saturday afternoon in a ten inning pitchers duel, the Varsity baseball nine finished on the off-best one of the most satisfying diamond seasons in the past several years. Although its won and lost average was only 500 and second place in the Ivy League will not be set until after the last Yale-Princeton meeting the day after tomorrow, the squad played laudable ball and showed strong potentialities for next spring...
Only reason why Harrison would not pitch would be a desire to let him take a try at Princeton Monday afternoon on his own diamond. Sophomore Johnny Neville...
...Alan Epstein '43, "Diamond Dust...