Word: harley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Over the years the club has greeted 15,000 students and other transient Chinese entering the U.S. through Seattle and nearby Victoria, B.C. "We saw we were running the country's reception room," says Clinton S. Harley, the owner of a Seattle cemetery. People in China saw it, too. As long ago as 1918, Dr. Hsin Yen, who had been Education Minister in the last days of the Manchu dynasty, noted that "Seattle is becoming a household word for fairness and friendliness...
...late 19303 the club sounded one of the first alarms against shipment of U.S. scrap iron to Japan; in 1938 it dramatically began picketing Japanese ships loading scrap on the Seattle waterfront. Recalls Harley: "The staid gentlemen in our membership walked side by side with left-wing fringe groups who happened to be taking the same position at the time...
...bucking machine which pulled two 'Cliffe girls around the Quad Wednesday was misrepresented as a "horse called Harley Davidson" in the CRIMSON yesterday...
When Millionaire Printer John F. Cuneo bought control of Chicago's ailing National Tea Co. in 1945, he grumbled that he was taking on "the worst chain-store property in the country." From Harley V. (for Vincent) McNamara, who had talked him into the deal, came a soothing answer: "That's what's so good about it-it can't get any worse." As National's new president. Optimist McNamara soon proved that it could get a lot better...
Advance Scout. In Indianapolis, Harley J. Driskell got 60 days in jail and a $77.75 fine after he sat in his car off a highway, held up a sign that warned passing motorists of a radar speed trap ahead, ran into a cop who approached to flush him from his post...