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...seven children, Dever was born in Boston; almost his entire family, uncles and aunts, cousins and nephews were involved one way or another in politics. In 1934, at the age of 31, he was elected Attorney General--the youngest in the state's history. He scaled the political ladder by religiously following the party line. He ran for Governor in 1948 and was elected by almost 390,000 votes...
Platform Manner. In South Bend, Ind., to advertise Fire Prevention Week, Fire Captain Anthony Miller made a surprise visit to the Rotary Club by aerial ladder through the second floor window, spoke briefly on fire prevention, then leaped out the window into a rescue...
...rest of the team had a chance to advance on the squad ladder through test matches arranged by Barnaby. John Rauh kept his singles spot safe by defeating the number four man, Gene Mann, in three close sets. Don Bossart beat Dave-Watts to move ahead of him into the fifth position...
...suspicions (well founded), the constant victim of his spite. But even when she hates him, which is not often, Chester's needy love for her keeps her in his debt, and makes it impossible for her to leave him. When Chester finally attains the top of the ladder, and she and Jim are middleaged, she gets a divorce and marries Jim at last. But now the shoe is on the other foot: old Nimmo, under the pretext of getting Nina's help with his memoirs, lays siege to her and carries the fort again & again. Even with...
Then the convention elected Ollenhauer to succeed Schumacher as head of the party. A Socialist since his teens, Ollenhauer was born (1901) the son of a Magdeburg mason, and he came up the party ladder during Weimar Republic days. He fled from the Nazis, first to Prague, then to London, and returned home in September 1945. Pudgy, bespectacled, pipe-smoking Ollenhauer has little of Schumacher's tigerish fire, but he is just as stubborn...