Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sign in front of the Granite Block Spa, across from Fall River's City Hall, proclaimed in neon lights: "Joe Martin, Our Next President." Hastily, the Joe Martin Day Committee advised the proprietor that this wasn't the right idea...
...idea was that Joe Martin Day would be a strictly nonpartisan affair, just a home-district celebration by Fall River's citizens to show homespun Speaker of the House Joe Martin "the pride and affection they feel in him by virtue of the high office he has attained." The plan had been conceived by William S. Canning, a movie-chain manager, a Democrat, and Fall River's most zealous booster. Canning was well aware that Joe had carried strongly Democratic Fall River only once in the last 22 years...
...former Princeton astronomer, Henry Norris Russell, will join the University astronomical staff this fall as a Research Associate of the College Observatory, following his recent appointment to the Faculty...
When he came to the College in the fall of '45, he was under doctor's orders to swim for his health and took to the Freshman swimming classes in the Indoor Athletic Building pool like the proverbial duck. There his strong arm action was spotted by Varsity coach Hal Ulen, who persuaded Norris to come out for the swimming team...
Norris, from Winchester and Winthrop House, enters his Junior year this fall. He holds a National Scholarship and is majoring in mechanical engineering...