Word: edmunds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sunny street outside, Policeman Edmund Noonan was directing traffic, half a block from the bank truck. He noticed a black Buick sedan beside it and strolled down the street to call a warning against double parking. As he approached, the car started up, ripped past him, screeched around the corner and was gone. The cop took one look at the open doors of the bank truck, scribbled down the first three digits of the Buick's license-all he had been able to spot-and ran into the drugstore. The guards tumbled out: $681,000 -biggest cash haul since...
Other officers are: Martin J. Hertz 2L: first vice-president in charge of planning: Matthew Foner 21, of New York, second vice-president in charge of publicity: John R. Berger 21, of Angola. Indiana secretary: and Edmund R. Rosencranz H. of New York, treasurer...
When Oliver Edmund Clubb, 51, retired from the U.S. Foreign Service last month, the business of his previous suspension and clearance seemed all settled and done with. A veteran diplomat who became chief of the State Department's Office of Chinese Affairs, Clubb got into trouble after Whittaker Chambers testified that he had once (1932) seen him in the offices of the Communist New Masses. In the course of defending himself against this not very grave charge, Clubb produced his personal diaries. These contained very candid entries about the Foreign Service and about Clubb's colleagues. These convinced...
...student who attacked the polls, Edmund Jacobsen, Jr. '54, said that he considered numbering such suuposedly anonymous questionnaires a "breach of ethics." He said: "It will make me think over twice before I sign another poll. I think if they came to interview me. I would complain to the postal authorities." However, he said before he would do this, he would first attempt to find out exactly what the poll is being used...
...powerful Bees were responsible for electing a Democratic state attorney general, Edmund G. Brown, in 1950, the only Democrat to win a high state office. Republican Governor Earl Warren is grateful for their support. But in the last presidential election, the Bees could not make up their minds, so they supported neither Truman nor Dewey. "If you don't know yourself who the best man is," says Eleanor, "you can't tell others. You just turn 'em loose and let 'em vote...