Word: phil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into the swank Savoy Hotel shelter, where guests can dine, dance and sleep, marched 50 ill-clad men & women with two children. Leading the pack was Phil Piratin, famed Hyde Park Communist orator. Two elegant Savoy directors, a constable and a Scotland Yard detective could not make them budge, but the stunt missed fire when the all clear sounded after only 13 minutes...
...Staff, the confusion of war, the hurly-burly of U. S. rearmament seemed far away. Beyond the Venetian blinds the rain fell, streaking the stuccoed walls of the War Department's shoddy Munitions Building, glazing the black asphalt of Washington's Constitution Avenue. Seated before old Phil Sheridan's ornately carved desk, spare, grey General George Catlett Marshall, in summer mufti, talked to 25 newsmen at his weekly press conference...
...days of Pittsburgh Phil and Buffalo Bill, the No. 1 summer attraction for the country's richest stables was the American Derby at Chicago's Washington Park. Started in 1884 to show snooty Easterners that Chicago was no longer a frontier town, the American Derby offered an inaugural purse of $10,000, more than double what the older, tonier Kentucky Derby offered. By 1893, its purse was $50,000, more than ten times Kentucky's. But, when panic hit its Pit, Chicago gave no thought to thoroughbreds, abandoned its Derby...
...Chief of Staff, General Marshall is the man who will decide what the Army will do and how it will do it. Across his ornately carved desk (bought in Chicago and taken to Washington by bulletheaded Phil Sheridan after the Civil War) flow all the Army's plans, from building flying fields to modernizing tactics and weapons...
Langdon P. Marvin, Jr. '41 of Eliot House and New York City, was elected president of the Student Council to succeed Phil C. Neal, at a meeting of the Council held yesterday for the induction of new officers...