Word: mcnamara
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...event, the candidates whose names are prefixed by a "CCA points the way" sign are, in general, the best ones running. With the exception of a few non-CCA city Council candidates like McNamara and Watson, the CCA men are the best hope for a reasonably clean Cambridge over the next two years...
...arrogantly demanded permission to edit and change the records of the hearings-a barefaced attempt that would enable him to square his imminent testimony with later established fact. For a while Hoffa had even seemed to be in charge. He led Michigan's bumbling Democratic Senator Pat McNamara, Arizona's Republican Senator Barry Goldwater and New York's Ives down a primrose path. There was conservative Goldwater blandly agreeing with Teamster Hoffa ("I am very hopeful that your philosophy prevails") on the role of organized labor in the U.S. economy, in a windy discourse that had both...
...Robert S. McNamara, 40, one of the youthful "whiz kids" brought in from the Air Forces after World War II to streamline Ford Motor Co. financial management, became the No. 4 man in the huge Ford empire. McNamara was named group vice president in charge of all car and truck divisions, succeeding ailing Executive Vice President Lewis D. Crusoe, 62, who retired. McNamara, who has been vice president and general manager of the Ford Division since 1955, will rank after Board Chairman Ernest Breech, 60, President Henry Ford II and Del Harder, 65, executive vice president for basic manufacturing...
...product of the Harvard Business School, McNamara first worked for Price, Waterhouse & Co., became an assistant professor of business administration at Harvard, then joined the Army Air Forces where he was a lieutenant colonel in charge of statistical control at Wright-Patterson field when Ford hired him in 1946 to work in the financial analysis office, promoted him to comptroller...
...time sport with big-town sports. The races used to pack such vast arenas as Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, and the smoke-heavy air vibrated with cheers for Italy's Maurice Brocco, Belgium's Gerard Debaets or Australia's iron man, Reggie McNamara. Song pluggers used the occasions to intone their wares. Pickpockets, purse snatchers, coat grabbers and assorted Broadway hoodlums worked overtime all week. Such flashy spenders as Peggy Hopkins Joyce and Movie Magnate William Fox dropped in to offer "premes" (premiums) that ran as high as $1,000 for winners of impromptu sprints...