Word: nash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Miami, where his entourage last week denied persistent reports that his health might prevent his return to duty. Henry Horner is Illinois' No. 1 Democrat by virtue of the drubbing he gave his erstwhile sponsors, Chicago's Mayor Edward Joseph Kelly and Democratic National Committeeman Patrick A. Nash, when those potent bosses tried to ditch him two years ago. Last week, with Ed Kelly's position as No. 2 Democrat and his chances of reinstating himself as No. i at stake, the hefty, curly-headed, 62-year-old mayor did valiant battle with another Kelly-Nash deserter...
...deserter was disgruntled, grandstanding State's Attorney Thomas J. Courtney, 44, who jumped on the Horner bandwagon when it invaded Chicago. Left stranded when Henry Horner patched up a truce with Bosses Kelly & Nash, Tom Courtney opposed Ed Kelly's renomination on his own hook, raised a hue & cry over Windy City corruption with the aid of Colonel William Franklin Knox's Daily News. Mayor Kelly got practically all other kinds of support available: C. I. O. and A. F. of L., Old Deal and New Deal, the Communist Midwest Daily...
...intercollegiate league the team won all its matches; in the Metropolitan, five were won, two lost, and one tied. Playing on the team throughout the year were Kenneth White '39, Morris W. Lister 1G. President John J. Fernsler '40, Edward Lorenz 1G, Reed Dawson '41, and Leonard Nash...
...Crimson team was composed of Kenneth White '39, Captain, John J. Fernsler '40, Leonard K. Nash '39, and Clarence W. Hewlett '42. Hewlett took the individual honors...
Until two years ago he played touch football twice a week with his students. To his students Dr. Nash is known also as a man with an encyclopedic memory and a sense of humor, brusque in speech, sharp in thought. His favorite expression: "It's as plain as a pikestaff, gentlemen." Liberal in politics, he is president of the Massachusetts Council of Churches, a charter member of the Church League for Industrial Democracy. He was surprised but glad to get the St. Paul's job, for he believes religion should be the centre of education and St. Paul...