Word: fullers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fuller Life...
Ockenga is currently approaching two other decisions about his ministry. Pasadena's Fuller Theological Seminary, which he helped found, is urging him to accept its full-time presidency. He has also been invited by the National Association of Evangelicals to become its executive vice president. At week's end his mind was still not made up. "A man's got to know what the Lord's will is," he said...
...winning candidates are: Amado A. Castro 2G, Economics; Morris L. Cogan 1G, Education; Lilian M. Cramer, Fine Arts; Robert B. Edmonds 1G, China Program; Melvin D. Feldstein 2G, Engineering; Hester C. Fuller, History; Calvin S. Hamilton 2G, Design; and Harry J. Hodder 4G, Government-Economics...
...Tentacles. Through Continental, the Capone syndicate has a powerful grip on every big bookmaking operation in the country. The committee first picked up its far-flung tentacles in Miami. A man named Harry Russell suddenly appeared in Miami shortly after the 1948 election of Governor Fuller Warren. There he set about muscling into the S & G Syndicate, which did a $26 million-a-year business supplying Continental's racing wire news to its own bookies. Continental abruptly switched off S & G's service. After several days of futile resistance, S & G took in a new partner-Harry Russell...
...links to Chicago were not apparent at first. But the committee found some suspicious links to the governor's mansion in Tallahassee. A dog-track owner named William H. Johnston, whom the committee called "an associate of Capone mobsters," had contributed $100,000 to Governor Fuller Warren's campaign. Russell was a good friend of Johnston's, and his efforts to subdue S & G were greatly helped by the governor's special investigator, who obligingly raided S & G books pointed out by Russell. When Russell became an S & G partner, the investigator as obligingly withdrew from...