Word: owens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also knows that his election took place in a convention not free from ill will. Dissatisfaction arose when the nominating committee, headed by Supreme Court Justice Owen J. Roberts, picked four candidates, all of them liberals, all graduates of Dr. Dun's Cambridge school. Both high and low church groups resented the committee's failure to put any but broad-church candidates on the slate. One group, which favored New York City's young Dr. C. Avery Mason, charged that their candidate was a victim of politics in the best Washington style. Mason ran second...
Token diplomas were delivered to the 12 section leaders by Chaplain William D. Cleary, Commandant. Two members of the Chaplain School's faculty, Chaplain Owen W. Eames and Chaplain John J. Roche, respectively, offered the invocation and pronounced the blessing...
Maine's Ralph Owen Brewster was most concerned about Lend-Lease, charged that it was being mismanaged, cited as an example of mismanagement the fact that Australia got 30,000 new trucks for civilian use as compared to 15,000 for the U.S., said he would ask the Truman Committee to investigate...
Show the world who can slug. The professional cast of 42 boasts no big-name comedian, and the script (though written by Owen Murphy and Peter Barry, who have gagged for Joe Cook and Ed Wynn) boasts hardly a laugh. Says one spokesman: "The show's not meant to be amusing; it's very much like christening a new gun for the Navy...
...with a bunch from Brooklyn. That was the year Mickey Owen dropped the third strike on Tommy Henrich. We were in the sunny southland, but I'll swear it didn't stop raining until the following February. And all on account of that third strike...