Word: governors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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About 40% of the presidents had once worked at something besides education. The University of Kansas picked a vice president of the Hawaiian Pineapple Co.; Iowa chose a Chicago lawyer. There were a physician, a dirt farmer, two journalists, a rear admiral and a former state governor...
...Tufts Oct. 8 Cornell Oct. 12 At Amherst Oct. 15 Army Oct. 18 At Connecticut Oct. 21 Dartmouth Oct. 29 At Navy Nov. 5 Princeton Nov. 11 At Brown Nov. 15 M.I.T. Nov. 18 At Yale FRESHMAN SOCCER Oct. 8 Tabor Academy Oct. 12 At Milton Academy Oct. 15 Governor Dummer Oct. 21 Dartmouth Oct. 26 Nichols Junior College Oct. 29 At Exeter Nov. 5 Andover Nov. 12 Brown Nov. 15 At Tufts Nov. 18 At Yale VARSITY CROSS-COUNTRY Sept. 30 University Handicaps Oct. 7 Tufts Oct. 14 Rhode Island State, H.C. Oct. 21 Dartmouth Oct. 28 University...
...game, its symbol, the axe, is presented to the winning team by the Governor of California. Forged in 1899 in the shape of a medieval battle axe, this weapon has had a stormy career. One month after its unveiling on the Stanford campus it was captured by California and carried off to Berkeley. Many years later, when it was beng removed from the vault of an Oakland bank, it was seized by a group known as the immortal six and brought back to the Farm. Another theft returned it to Berkeley until 1930, when 21 stalwarts from Stanford stormed...
Facing the fight of his life for re-election in 1950, Taft felt encouraged. Despite the brassy threats of organized labor, no one with a chance of outselling him had yet appeared. The Democrats' popular Governor Frank Lausche had already all but taken himself out of the race. Cleveland's Mayor Tom Burke, the only other Democrat with a solid chance of beating Taft, was showing a marked reluctance to get into the fight. Taft felt so encouraged that he remarked to a friend: "I feel too good too early...
...lifetime career in Manhattan's international law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell. He also became a driving force in the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. But when the Republicans urged him to make the race against the Democrats' 71-year-old ex-Governor Herbert H. Lehman, Dulles finally agreed. Said Dulles: "My own conscience wouldn't have it otherwise...