Word: lloyd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vowed that he would not support a candidate of the faction headed by Governor John Fine and National Committeeman Mason Owlett. When names were suggested, Duff would bless no one except his old friend, Lieut. Governor Lloyd Wood, 56. It was assumed that Fine, Owlett & Co. would refuse to back Wood, and then Jim would hear a clear call to "save the party" by running himself...
Last week Fine, Owlett, State Chairman M. Harvey Taylor and other big shots in Pennsylvania Republicanism (but not Duff) gathered in Philadelphia's Penn Sheraton Hotel to pick a candidate for governor. After 3½ hours, they announced their choice: portly, thunderous Lloyd Wood. In Washington, Big Red acted pleased and allowed, "His candidacy is agreeable to me in every...
...explain everything twice; Racket Squad aims at exposing the tricks of confidence men but has a hard time working up sympathy for its victims, since they are just as larcenous at heart as the swindlers who fleece them. Martin Kane has changed its leading man four times (William Gargan, Lloyd Nolan, Lee Tracy, Mark Stevens)-oftener than it has changed its plot. Two crime shows, China Smith and Du Mont's Colonel Humphrey Flack are played for laughs, while two others, Foreign Intrigue and Orient Express, gain some freshness of face and background by being filmed and largely cast...
Pinkerton, U.S.N., is Major Lloyd Gruver, Air Force jet ace; his Butterfly. Hana-ogi, a dancer. Gruver and Hana-ogi love and lose each other at the color line. With many an audible aside, Author Michener labors the worthy moral of their story: U.S. color snobbery will unfailingly lose friends and alienate people in the Far East...
Brusque, 28-year-old Lloyd Gruver, a West Pointer with seven MIGs to his credit, is ordered by the squadron medic to take a rest in Japan. Confident that he belongs to a superior race, Gruver at first is disgusted to see American boys taking an interest in and even marrying Japanese girls with butterball shapes, burlap dresses and gold teeth. But he soon serves as best man at a Japanese-American wedding, and the groom, an airman from Gruver's outfit, drops a tantalizing hint: "G.I.s married to Jap girls always look as if they knew...