Word: finney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said Columnist Allen, wrote a "vivid and dynamic chapter ... in Our Fair City [Editor: Robert S. Allen], best-selling study on municipal rule in the U.S. . . ." Another was Richard S. Davis, who wrote the chapter on Milwaukee. Three were Scripps-Howard Washington correspondents: Marshall McNeil, Daniel Kidney and Ruth Finney (Mrs. Robert S. Allen). "They know more about operation of the Government than most of its so-called operators," Allen confided. "Also about lobbyists and other finaglers, who on innumerable occasions have been frustrated by these writers' exposes...
CHARLES F. FINNEY...
Tall, white-haired James Finney Lincoln of Cleveland is a hard man to his foes-and a gold mine to his employes. His obsession on incentive pay has led him into one head-on collision after another with the U.S. Treasury, the U.S. Navy, and even the U.S. Congress (TIME, June 8, 1942). But it has also been responsible, he unshakably believes, for making his Lincoln Electric Co. the world's biggest, lowest-cost producer of electric welding equipment...
...think that's Eben Finney," replied his sour, dour friend. "And Frankely, I think we'd better get behind a Sandbach; here comes a Tiger aerial bomb...
...ears. Valedictorian of his high-school class at Portland, Ore., he is now the Red Sox's No. 1 public speaker, having delivered some 40 speeches at banquets, luncheons, club meetings. But little Pesky is still awed by his big-league teammates, especially Bobby Doerr and Lou Finney, whose shoes he used to shine when he was a "clubhouse punk" for the Portland Beavers...