Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beginner's Luck. But the big split between Jim Duff and the Grundy-Owlett group was a fight for state control which had been raging ever since Big Jim Duff sat down in the governor's chair. For years Joe Grundy had run the state through his Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association, founded on and dedicated to the principle that what's best for industry is best for the state. Jim Duff had another theory: that capitalism thrives best when it is not just the protector of entrenched wealth, but serves all the people equally...
...studied law at the Universities of Pennsylvania and Pittsburgh. After he had hung out his shingle in Pittsburgh, he scraped up $5,000 for an oil driller's rig and took a lease on some property not five miles from home. With beginner's luck, he struck. Since then he has followed the wildcatters from western Pennsylvania to the Gulf Coast of Mexico. He made a fortune, lost most of it in the 1929 crash, returned to the law practice he had never quite abandoned...
...Sailed up to Annapolis aboard the Williamsburg, brought good luck to Navy athletes, who swept their "June Week" crew races with Cornell, walloped the Army baseball team 10-to-0 as the President whirred away with his movie camera...
...sort of miser, Stephen Girard spent millions bolstering the U.S. Government during the War of 1812. He lent President Monroe $40,000 to pay off his personal debts, helped Joseph Bonaparte set up a court in exile, dribbled away thousands to anyone with a hard-luck story. When he died in 1831, the childless old man left $6,000,000 to found a school for fatherless boys...
...reason behind the move is the recent high number of scholarship students who have fallen below Group Three standing in their first year. "Many times a C-plus instead of a B-minus has meant a boy cannot continue in College, just because he has fallen into some hard luck," Dean Leighton stated. Because of the existence of the present arbitrary rule, an existence of the present arbitrary rule, an excessive emphasis is placed on "grade grabbing," he remarked...