Word: nelsoned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Battling Nelson, the Durable Dane, lightweight champion from 1908 to 1910, conqueror of Young Corbett and Joe Gans in boxing's palmy days, shuffled out of Cook County Hospital, Chicago, after a five-day bout with pneumonia, back to his job as a mail clerk...
...depression he had sold apples on a Manhattan street corner. Later he returned to the U.S. as his country's ambassador. Now he plans to see bankers as well as doctors, sound them out for some new loans to get his administration started. Another possibility: persuading his friend Nelson Rockefeller to start a development corporation in Ecuador like his Basic Economy Corporation in Venezuela...
...Nelson ("The Doc") Hume had started the school himself, and for 33 years had been its headmaster. Canterbury School, on a hill above New Milford, Conn., blossomed into a tony Roman Catholic version of Groton and St. Mark's. Its ambition was to turn out Catholic boys for Ivy League colleges, without neglecting their religious training. There were no monks or priests about: Canterbury calls itself the only Catholic prep school in the U.S. run exclusively by laymen. Doc Hume, an imposing, bushy-browed man of booming voice, taught the boys apologetics and Christian ethics and led them...
Robert E. Highfield, Indianapolis. Charles E. Nelson, Marion. Richard Russell, Indianapolis...
...became president of a combine of ten companies headed by Continental Distilling Corp. In 1939 he moved up into his present job in Publicker, Continental's parent, became an officer of several subsidiaries. Named with Marks was Nelson Littell, 51, Manhattan patent lawyer, and secretary-treasurer of American Hyalsol...