Word: owen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...helper ("a dirty, oily job") in the Chicago plant; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. An M.I.T. electrical-engineering graduate, Swope took the G.E. helm in 1922, consolidated its holdings over the next 17 years, diversified the company, built it into a $300 million corporation. Together with his radical board chairman, Owen D. Young, he was responsible for some of the most far-reaching labor policies in American industry, put into operation (after the 1929 crash) an unemployment insurance plan for 100,000 employees (before the days of social security). In 1931 he presented his famed "Swope Plan" for stabilizing industry...
...Owen and Dan Ullyot will once more be at defense, while Dick McLaughlin and John Copeland, who will join the team later, form the other pair. Three veterans of last year, Bill Collins, Bud Higgenbottom, and Dick Reilly will probably make up the third line. The outstanding sophomore so far is Bruce Gillie, a diminutive forward who has looked very good in practice...
...ever. With two-thirds of the show sold (to Aluminium Ltd. and Union Carbide), and the other third bid for, Omnibus kicked off with a slickly attractive white-shoe production of Stover at Yale, a tongue-in-dimpled-cheek musical adaptation by Douglass (Damn Yankees) Wallop of the old Owen Johnson stories. Much of the play lived up to Alistair Cooke's introduction of it as "a gentle thing, both odd and funny." When the boola overflowed with the fun of the Turkey trot, ragtime and jagtime at Mory's, and naughty dancing girls at lesser saloons, Stover...
...possibility of this plan was also admitted by the Master of Winthrop House, David E. Owen. Although he "would regret opening the door to a mass moving out of the Houses," Owen felt that some sort of liberalization, depending "on the degree of overcrowding," might be feasible...
...Detroit physician named Orville Owen went so overboard on his own cipher theory that he declared Bacon was not only Shakespeare but also such authors as Marlowe, Edmund Spenser and Robert Burton. Another Baconian found his inspiration in the fact that both Bacon and Shakespeare used the word honorificabili-tudinitatibus. He divided the word into two parts, spelled the first backward (BACIFIRONOH), declared this to be an anagram for FR BACONO. From the rest of the letters, he got HI LUDI TUITI NATI SIBI, which taken all together spelled "These Plays, produced by Francis Bacon, guarded for themselves...