Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pope's failure so far to name new cardinals in Asia or Africa, where the growth of nationalism is presenting the church with some of its thorniest problems and greatest opportunities. It is also considered likely that, in addition to Boston's Richard J. Gushing and Philadelphia's John F. O'Hara, Pope John will name more cardinals in the U.S.-almost certainly in Chicago, the largest U.S. archdiocese of all, whose Archbishop Albert Meyer (TIME, Oct. 6) was thought by some to be still too new in his post for inclusion in last week...
CHEAP NUCLEAR POWER is goal of 54 utilities that propose to build new type, 40,000 kw. reactor outside Philadelphia. It would be cooled by helium; method may well prove more economical than usual water cooling...
...Howard Stolpp Bunn, 58, executive vice president of Union Carbide Corp., second largest U.S. chemical company, became president, succeeding Morse G. Dial, 63, who moved up to chairman and continues as chief executive officer. A Philadelphia-born, Lehigh-educated ('20) chemist, Bunn is more salesman than scientist, has been executive vice president since 1955, is Dial's probable successor...
Also, Charles Weiss, Jr. of Dunster House and Philadelphia; Michael D. West of Kirkland House and Columbus, Ohio, and John Womack, Jr. of Winthrop House and Norman, Oklahoma...
Neither the personal nor the local character of his following was sufficient to distinguish Curley from the other big-city bosses. Frank Hague controlled Hudson County, mostly Jersey City; Tammany had the city across the river; in Chicago Boss Kelly ran Cook County, and Ware had Philadelphia. But, as Louis Lyons points out, none had an organization that reached far outside his city...