Word: oswald
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...OSWALD BATES LORD, 48, campaign-time co-chairman of the national Citizens for Eisenhower-Nixon organization, to be U.S. representative on the U.N. Human Rights Commission, succeeding Eleanor Roosevelt, resigned. A flour heiress (Pillsbury Mills) with brains (Phi Beta Kappa at Smith College), efficient Mary Lord is the wife of a prosperous Manhattan textile manufacturer, mother of two sons, and a likely contender for the title of New York City's No. 1 committeewoman. Among her top posts: wartime chairman of Civilian Advisory Committee for the Women's Army Corps, president of the National Health Council, chairman...
Those chosen were: from section A, Edwin J. Deadrick. 'Donald F. Hastings, and Charles R. Longsworth; section D, Frederic W. Corle, Charles Kerr 3rd, and Robert H. Tobias; section C. Richard W. Homans, James H. McDougall, and Charles W. Oswald. Section D picked George S. Bissell, John S. Hoffmire, Jr., and John A. Seller; section E, Thomas K. Meakin, Eugene R. Myler, and Nelson Shaw; and section F, James E. Curtis, Charles R. Manby, and Vincente T. Paterno...
Before coming here, Hughes was with the Office of Strategic Services during the war. Since he has been teaching at Harvard, he has published "An Essay for Our Times," and "Oswald Spengler--A Critical Estimate...
...Nichols' second autobiographical book, tells exactly what Beverley did; but, as it is well spiced with rose-geranium anecdotes and set against a backdrop of Mayfair and Riviera high life, its place on the library shelf is beside Noel Coward and Sir Osbert Sitwell rather than beside Oswald Spengler and St. Augustine...
Local boosters and realty boards were not anxious to shout about this creeping threat to their real-estate values, but Water Engineer Oswald A. Gierlich of Manhattan Beach refused to keep mum. He knew that the west basin's gravel recharges very slowly, that fresh water comes a long distance from inland mountains and filters through gaps in an impermeable barrier called the Inglewood-Newport Fault (see diagram). The invading sea water moves much faster. Gierlich figured that, if nothing were done, sea water would fill the whole basin in about ten years and permanently spoil the vital wells...