Word: fullers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Richard Buckminster Fuller's name is mentioned, most architects chuckle indulgently; a few reverently bow their heads. Sparkling "Bucky" Fuller, a rotund little man who looks more businesslike than he is, long ago startled the U.S. with designs for three-wheeled, tear-shaped cars and pear-shaped "Dymaxion" houses hung from metal masts, but he never succeeded in convincing investors that his ideas were adaptable to mass production - the only kind that interests him. At 54, Bucky confesses without a smile that his one purpose is still to house "the 800 million people now alive who will...
Outside of the city of Boston, Curley's success has, been very limited. Beaton twice for governor, in 1924 by Alvin T. Fuller and in 193 8by Leverett Saltonstall, he was in the State House for only one term, 1934-6; and those were the years of Roosevelt's first term when no democrat could lose. In the last year of his governorship, he ran for the Senate against Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. and lost even though it was the first time Lodge had ron for political office...
...Washington as Congressman from the 11th District (Cambridge and Somerville). Curley had been the nominal president of the Engineer's Group, Inc., a company dedicated to the purpose of getting government contracts for small businesses. The Truman Committee, investigating the Group, caught up with the promoter James G. Fuller, a notorious confidence man. In the proceedings, it was found that Curley had accepted a $3500 check for services along the way. Therefore, in a trial in the District of Columbia, Justice James K. Prector ruled that Curley and three other defendants were guilty of mail fraud. But, in his decision...
...chairmen, Edward F. Burke '50, Student Council President, and Robert F. Fuller '50, N.S.A. Chairman; Secretary, Francis L. Church '50, President of the Free Enterprise Society; Treasurer, Charles J. West '50, President of the Harvard Democratic Club...
Visitors to the College for football weekends will receive four page "hospitality programs" listing restaurants, hotels, night clubs, and other entertainment, according to Robert F. Fuller '50, newly elected chairman of the College National Student Association chapter, which is sponsoring the project...