Word: philadelphias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Philadelphia Banker Gates (Drexel & Co.) took over the Navy Secretary's job in 1957 after four years as Under Secretary, demonstrated the same smartness he showed in World War 11 as a naval air intelligence officer. But Gates got torpedoed on two issues: 1) he argued unsuccessfully for Navy appropriations on a basis of Navy need as he saw it, rather than percentage of the overall four-service defense budget; 2) he offered stubborn resistance to President Eisenhower's Defense Reorganization Act on the ground that it would sap service secretaries' powers, take Navy units...
...public record, the protests were based on the great distance that many delegates would have to travel to get to Los Angeles. But the real reasons-aside from the desire of Illinoisans to get the convention to Chicago and Pennsylvanians to get it for Philadelphia-went to the very roots of Democratic power politics. Among them...
...varsity squash team opened its major campaign of the season yesterday afternoon in Philadelphia by soundly defeating Penn, 9 to 0. The Quakers could only pick up two games out of 27 as the varsity began sharpening up for the all-important Navy match today. Gerry Emmet, playing in the number one position for the first time this season, handily disposed of the top Penn player...
...varsity squash team opens its most important series of matches this season when it takes on a weak Penn squad this afternoon in Philadelphia. This match, however, will be little more than a practice session for the Crimson, which will play Navy and Princeton tomorrow and Saturday. These contests will probably decide the Eastern Inter collegiate Championship, for Yale has lost to the Middies, 5 to 4, and a Crimson win at Annapolis would definitely make the varsity a favorite to take the crown...
...FROM his Philadelphia office, Symes shoots down to Washington several times a month in his private railroad car (with cook, steward, three bedrooms, dining room, observation lounge). Nattily dressed and usually puffing a Camel (his male secretary always carries extra packs), Symes tickles legislators with his hearty humor and ready store of anecdotes, sways them with his sharp intelligence, collars Congressmen for private talks, is always ready to testify before a congressional committee...