Word: girard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Captain Girard "Jerry" Haverty, one of two seniors in Kelley's starting eleven, will start at fullback. He is playing his third year of varsity ball, after two seasons of defensive action under the double platoon system...
...termed it "a vicious new scandal . . . perpetrated by high officials and politicians of the Administration." Since Harvey had been able to wangle a large power allotment from the Interior's Bonneville Power Administration before getting his loan approved, Saylor noted that Harvey had hired as his counsel C. Girard Davidson, one of Chapman's former assistants, who had worked with Northwest power agencies. Moreover, Saylor charged that the Harvey family, through big Democratic Party contributions, wielded potent influence on the Government. "With money he made off war contracts," said Saylor, Harvey had bought Los Angeles' Subway Terminal...
Died. E. (for Emanuel) Haldeman-Julius, 62, publisher of the famed, cut-rate (icy) "Little Blue Books"; by accidental drowning; in Girard, Kans. An outspoken socialist, agnostic and advocate of companionate marriage, in 32 years he sold more than 300 million copies of his books, ranging from Essence of the Bible to The Art of Kissing, made a small fortune, but failed to report $75,000 of it, was appealing a six-month jail sentence for income-tax evasion when he died...
...Brightest?" Greenewalt came naturally by his scientific bent. His father, Dr. Frank Greenewalt, was resident physician at Philadelphia's Girard College. His mother, the former Mary Elizabeth Hallock, was a concert pianist, and patented her own invention, the use of varicolored lighting to harmonize with the moods of music. Both parents were old friends of Wilmington's Du Ponts; Mrs. Greenewalt's sister, Ethel Hallock, had married William K. du Pont, brother of Pierre, Lammot...
There were also new rumblings from Washington that steel companies are not expanding fast enough. Though Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer was satisfied, Assistant Secretary of the Interior C. (for Crow) Girard Davidson, one of the Administration's top planners on steel and electric power, last week said that he was not. Said Davidson: by 1953 the U.S. will need 125 million tons of steel, but its capacity will be only 100 million tons...