Word: milton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Right up to election eve, his enemies spared no smear in their efforts to unseat able, 43-year-old Mayor Frank Zeidler of Milwaukee. A few days before the election, supporters of Alderman Milton McGuire, Zeidler's opponent, published advertisements (later repudiated by McGuire) which declared that Milwaukee was infested with marijuana and liquor-crazed juveniles and that "hoodlum mobs" ranged the city "with wolf-pack viciousness." Despite this and a whispering campaign that labeled him a "nigger lover" (TIME, April 2), Socialist Zeidler last week won his third consecutive term by a majority of 23,000 votes...
Pennsylvania State University President Milton Eisenhower played host to Bolivia's ebullient Ambassador to the U.S. Victor Andrade, wound up with the envoy awarding him Bolivia's highest civilian decoration in appreciation of Eisenhower's aid to Bolivia in 1953 when he was an emissary to Latin America...
With no warning at all, one of Manhattan's biggest ad agencies last week hung up its grey flannel suit, wrapped the draperies of its couch about it and lay down to pleasant dreams. Milton H. Biow, 63-year-old founder, chairman and president of Biow Co., Inc., announced that he would liquidate the company at the end of June. His explanation: "After 40 years of intensive application, I feel that I can now pursue other interests...
...season-opening victory which relied on team work rather than individual achievement, the freshman tennis squad yesterday swept all six singles and three doubles matches from Milton Academy...
...seems like a good tough team," judged Coach Corey Winn after the match, "and all the players looked good for this early in the season." First outdoor practice was on Wednesday. Winn predicted coming matches with M.I.T. and Brown will strain the squad more than the Milton match, however...