Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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National Chairman Leonard W. Hall, 57, for Governor and trying to divert Manhattan Millionaire Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, 49, from his persistent but unannounced interest in the Governor's chair to an interest in Irving Ives's Senate seat. Possible Democratic Senate contenders: New York's Mayor Robert F. Wagner, onetime Air Force Secretary Thomas K. Finletter and New York District Attorney Frank Hogan. Strongest of the three is Wagner, who swept back into city hall last November with the largest plurality ever granted a New York mayor, still wants to follow his father into the Senate...
...perennially powerful CRIMSON nine, led by Captain B. Eames "Slim" Nelson, overwhelmed WHRB yesterday afternoon, 23 to 2, behind the two-hit pitching of the Crime's ace hurler, John "Fireball" Adler. The radiomen claimed fatigue as the reason for their defeat. As one member said, following the contest, "An orgy can take a lot out of a man." He was referring to the station's recent all-night music shows...
...Unless specifically stated, no act of Congress would preempt state laws in the same field. This is in answer to the 1956 Supreme Court decision in the case of Pennsylvania Communist Leader Steve Nelson, who had been convicted under a state antisedition law. The court held that Congress, by passing federal antisubversion laws, had superseded all state laws dealing with subversive activities against...
...people came first. Director d'Harnoncourt, who arrived as 30 children in the museum's painting classes were being led to the street, was soon leading search patrols to comb through the smoke-choked galleries. Museum Board Chairman Nelson Rockefeller donned a fireman's coat and helmet and plunged into the smoke to help. Director of Collections Alfred H. Barr Jr. led trapped museum staffers from the fifth floor to an adjacent brownstone roof. Other museum staff members led 500 visitors to the museum's rooftop restaurant or down the fire stairs. The fire...
Brigham ended the game with a really overpowering ninth inning. He struck out two pinch-hitters on a total of six pitches, then threw two more strikes before inducing Nelson to pop up for the final...