Word: plum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...academic pressures, Princeton was not represented, and the championship was confined to competition between Harvard and Yale. In this situation Yale was able to win but one match. At the number one position in team competition, Captain Roger Tuckerman efficiently defeated Yale's Roy Plum 6-2, 6-1. Brothers Dwight and John Davis also won for the Crimson, defeating Eli hopefuls Dinny Phipps and Richard Collier...
...When Frye proposed a new stock issue to get cash, Hughes balked, fearing the dilution of his own interest in T.W.A., and the Hughes-Frye team cracked up in 1947. Jack Frye was out of a job. Always well connected with the Democrats in Washington, Frye got a political plum, the presidency (at $97,000 a year) of the Government-held General Aniline & Film Corp. When political pressures eased him out of the job in 1955, he tried to start his own planemaking company. It never got off the ground. Last week Jack Frye, still determined to conquer...
...PLUM Fairmont...
Bent on grappling with the problem of price upcreep, President Eisenhower last week handed Vice President Nixon a job that was part plum, part hot potato. Richard Milhous Nixon's new post, his first major executive responsibility: chairman of a new Cabinet Committee on Price Stability for Economic Growth, with a franchise to 1) study the labor and management factors pushing up costs and prices, and 2) "strive to build a better understanding" of inflation and the public and private policies needed to curb...
...part hot potato because it will be easy to offend both labor and business in investigating their cost-pushing practices. It is part plum because it gives Nixon an opportunity to improve his 1960 presidential prospects by doing a big and important job. The committee will be a "continuing" body, said the President's announcement, and in '60, it is safe to bet, it will be going like...