Word: mansfield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last October Montana's spare, slow-spoken Representative Michael J. Mansfield received a surprise summons to the White House. Said Franklin Roosevelt: "Mike, I want you to go to China...
Vice-President is Hibbard G. James '46, of Winchester; Treasurer, Gerald E. Maslon '45, of Law School; Secretary, Charles F. Mansfield '47, of Adams House, and additional member of the executive board, Simon A. Sayre '48, of Lowell House...
...Just imagine!" cried West Virginia's hardbitten, New Dealing Governor Matthew Mansfield ("Matt") Neely, "asking the citizens to choose between Funkhouser and Rush Holt for their Governor...
...gloom, almost in despair, Novelist Louis Bromfield wrote last summer from his 1,500-acre farm near Mansfield, Ohio, "Though ours is the richest agricultural nation, our people are not going to have enough food. If it were possible, I would rather not think about next February." Last week Louis Bromfield survived the first week in "famine February" by eating well. So did the U.S. And War Food Administrator Marvin Jones, pooh-poohing Bromfield's prophecies, cheerfully boasted of surplus potatoes, eggs and canned goods...
...Milwaukee, became an elevator boy at the Republican House when he was 13, rarely left its billiard room. Instead of firing him, the manager ordered his proficient boy employe to play with well-paying guests, and he soon became the favorite of billiard-playing Actors Joseph Jefferson, Richard Mansfield, Willian Collier, Kate Emmett. He watched the distinguished and dazzling performances of billiard greats Jake Schaefer Sr. and Frank Ives. While still uniformed after his return from the Spanish-American War, Peterson took a beating from beknickered Willie Hoppe, but got his revenge later in an exhibition match (1906) when...