Word: movers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Bill Boyle came to his reward. Democratic Chairman J. Howard McGrath, who is loyal but no mover and shaker, was called to the White House, gently given the word. Then McGrath announced that Boyle would be executive vice chairman, run headquarters, share in policymaking. There was much more to it than that: Bill Boyle would parcel out, or pass on, the jobs in the lush fields above civil service and below Cabinet rank (among them: judgeships, U.S. district attorneys, key postmasterships). Eventually he would probably take title officially from McGrath. His first goal: to buck...
That was Harvard's lone threat. Previously, with passer Don Wohitman as the prime mover, Trumbull had gone 45 yards in nine plays--Captain Frank Hartung scoring--and bucked across after 25 yards--Ross Cowan scoring. Harold McCauley's .500 placement record put the figures into the final order before the half...
Thomas D'Arcy Brophy, prime mover of the "Freedom Train," has endorsed the magazine and is writing the foreword to the first issue for the same reason...
Rusher a Prime Mover...
Through the indignation that has arisen around the American refusal to support the Palestine partition that question persists. Why, after 30 years of investigations, which have all reported substantially the same thing, does the United States call for more investigations? Why, after she had been the prime mover in the request for partition, does the United States in a little more than five months completely reverse her position...