Word: oed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the full force of his party's state machinery, last week won renomination-but only by 346,554 votes to 198,599 for an opponent who had pledged "not to lift a finger" in active candidacy. The lackluster winner: 42-year-old Governor C. (for nothing) William O'Neill; the loser: former Cincinnati Mayor Charles P. Taft, who had filed only as a "standby" after O'Neill suffered a mild heart attack (TIME...
Part of the sizable Taft vote undoubtedly came from his membership in Ohio's first political family. But another part came as voter reaction against the unimpressive, do-nothing O'Neill administration. The results meant trouble for Republicans in November, when O'Neill must face the man he defeated in 1956: hard-running, fast-quipping Democrat Michael V. Di Salle, who easily won his party's nomination in an election where, for the first time since 1948, more Ohioans voted in the Democratic primary than in the Republican...
...parents' marriage. His father is a minor oil-company executive with a modest income, his mother a talented piano teacher who studied in New York with Liszt's longtime pupil, Arthur Friedheim. She was on the verge of making her debut under her maiden name, Rildia Bee O'Bryan, when her mother intervened and forbade her a concert career...
...Street Journal pointed a finger at lazy salesmen in a memo to dealers: "There are hordes of people driving the streets today who are ready and able to buy a new car, if you'd only ask them." Last week the Journal got a rise out of William O. Neale, vice president for sales of Los Angeles' Harger-Haldeman, Plymouth-Chrysler-Imperial agency. Wrote Neale: "The fact is, our fellows don't spend time talking about the recession. They're too busy doing something about it-with phone calls, personal letters, direct-mail pieces...
Keystone. In Chicago, Police Commissioner Timothy J. O'Connor suspended Sergeant Viator O'Gara for arriving at the scene of a stickup 43 minutes after the call was broadcast, then "standing there with a cigar in his mouth, his uniform coat unbuttoned and his hands in his pockets...