Word: nassau
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Boss of Long Island's rock-ribbed Republican Nassau County (pop. 672,765), is J. Russel Sprague, old friend and crafty political lieutenant of New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey. Last week Sprague, under fire for his ownership of $500.000 worth of stock (which cost him, in effect, $24,000) in the scandal-ridden Yonkers Raceway, resigned as New York's Republican national committeeman...
Yale has lost six of its last eight games and has won only three games all fall. The Crimson has a record of six losses and only four wins. The Big Three Championship rests securely in Nassau...
Certainly Harvard should shy from anything that would lead to Princeton's system of rigid, almost dictatorial, control. With all its enticements of bonus pools and guaranteed minimums--siphoned from weekly earnings--Nassau's version of the welfare state would not thrive in Cambridge. The situation is too different, with many more jobs available nearby, more complete service offered by local merchants, and thus, less variety of goods that students can sell in the College...
Long Island's Nassau County is a solid rock of Republicanism. For 36 years Republicans have been breezing into Nassau County offices, usually by more than 2-1. This year scandal swept across the county from the Roosevelt (trotting horse) Raceway, where labor racketeers had been shaking down the employees and some owners of stock had made fabulous profits. The county's Mr. Republican, National Committeeman J. Russel Sprague, turned out to be one of the stockholders of the scandal-ridden Yonkers Raceway, in nearby Westchester County...
...Nassau made a better showing after intermission, with some old English glees. The words were intelligible and the clever Amo, Amas brought chuckles from Latin scholars...