Word: hope
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the vote was in and State Senator Elmer H. Wene (rhymes with bean), the gubernatorial choice of the Democratic Party and the last best hope of Boss Frank Hague, was a loser. New Jersey's voters, by a plurality of 80,000, had reelected able, hard-working Republican Governor Alfred E. Driscoll...
...industry by 1953. With the migration of the textile companies southward, the six nodtheastern states had begun to ask themselves if their leadership in small industry was finished. But with the discovery a few years ago of a rich vein of iron ore in Newfoundland and Labrador came the hope of an even greater share of the nation's manufacturing wealth. As it stands now, plans are being made to build as steel mill in one of New England's seaports before 1953 and to set up shipping traffic in ore between that port and the mines to the north...
Then directors Poskanzer and Wyant hope to be able to see if the result of a Harvard education is anything like the conceived goal. Then also they hope to decide whether Harvard produces the "whole...
...hope that we will never again have an outstanding football team," said President Robert Gannon of Fordham University two years ago. Under his rigid de-emphasis program, the once-powerful Ram shrank to an emaciated shadow of its old self. Then Father Gannon left Fordham...
...this speculative fever had been stirred up by the hope that the U.S. would raise the price of gold, and thereby devalue the dollar. To this, Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder had said no, a thousand times no. He had flatly declared that the U.S. will not change the price of gold, that it has not even considered such a move. Still, the gossip and gabble continued...