Word: franked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Honorable mentions in the undergraduate division of the Bowdoin prizes went to Foote, who wrote a second piece, on "Father Hopkins: A Ritualist in Poetry"; Michael Roemer '49 for "Heartbreak House": and Walter S. Frank '49 for "The Tragic Equation: A Study of Marlowe's 'Faustus' and Goethe's 'Faust...
...Frank Hague had left his rococo Miami Beach winter home to rush back to Jersey City and take a hand in a city election. Defeat was in the wind. His stooge and nephew, Frank Hague Eggers, was on the run. Eggers, who had succeeded aging uncle Frank as mayor two years before, and four other Hague city commissioners were facing a well-heeled and powerful opposition which was determined to throw them out. The man in the high collar, who admits to 73 but is probably past 75, was fighting for political survival...
...Boss. He had one meager item of consolation. The man who beat him was neither an independent, a reformer, nor a Republican upstart. He was John V. Kenny, onetime Hague lieutenant, whose own father, Eddie, had taught Frank Hague the ropes and got him his first political job as a constable more than 40 years ago. Young John Kenny became boss of the Second Ward. Then, a year ago, Hague had tossed him out because John was getting "too popular." Said Kenny frankly: "If Hague had not thrown me out, I probably would still be a member of the machine...
...city with one of the highest tax rates in the nation, rigged assessments, discouraged businesses, factories deserted by fleeing industry, a city turned into a huge patchwork of slums by political graft. Left to historians was the problem of discovering, if they could, the exact details of how Frank Hague, on a salary never bigger than the mayor's $8,500 a year, became several times a millionaire. Left to Frank Hague were his declining years-to spend in his suite at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel, in his $7,000-a-year apartment in one of Jersey City...
...Each keeps in mind the special talents of the other three. Russian-born Vladimir ("Vee") Padwa, who filled a vacancy in the Quartet in 1942, is the trill expert; Garner likes to handle special tonal colors; Edson is famed for what the others call his "light delicate touch." Viennese Frank Mittler, who looks like a concert version of Actor Frank Fay, quips: "I do the 'dramatic pauses...