Word: franklin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years later became vice president of G.M. in charge of industrial and public relations. U.S. Steel hired him as a front man. By the time he was 37, he was chairman of the board, making $100,000 a year, and was a friend of everyone. At the urging of Franklin Roosevelt's Harry Hopkins, big, expansive Ed went to big, expanding wartime Washington...
Princeton's powerful cross-country team overran both Yale and Harvard yesterday afternoon at Franklin Park, Brookline, beating the Crimson, 11 to 41, and taking Yale...
Jaakko's harried harriers face almost certain defeat again today at 3:45 p.m. at Franklin Field in their annual triangular meet with Princeton and Yale...
...theatre crowd lets out with the lights on in the back seat of his limousine; or stealing the show at the Harvard Tercentenary celebration with an eloquent dissertation on the history of the relationship between the State of Massachusetts and Harvard--plus a timely presidential election year plug for Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...Curley's name because nationally known when he shrewdly backed Franklin D. Roosevelt in the national Democratic convention and then campaigned vigorously for him in the election race. However farsighted, the action was politically dishonorable; Alfred E. Smith, Roosevelt's opponent for the nomination was an enormous favorite in Boston. So popular was Smith that for months after Curley's break with him, the Boston people wouldn't turn out to hear Curley speak. In that year, the State democratic convention sent Governor Ely as head of the delegation to Chicago to vote for Smith's nomination...