Word: ralph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...corner, the titleholder: U.S. Senator Ralph W. Yarborough, 55, darling of the state's liberal Democrats ("Put the jam on the lower shelf where the little fellow can reach it"). Elected last year to fill out the unexpired term of Price Daniel, who left the Senate to run successfully for Governor, Ralph Yarborough now wants the full six-year term...
...Charles Sparks Thomas, 60, bouncy, bottle-bald former Secretary of the Navy (1954-57), was named president of Trans World Airlines, a job that eccentric T.W.A. Owner Howard Hughes has found hard to fill since the death of Ralph S. Damon 2½ years ago. Carter L. Burgess piloted T.W.A. for a year until falling out with Hughes last December; since then, Chairman Warren Lee Pierson has acted as president, and T.W.A., with no firm, clear-cut leadership, lost $14 million in the first five months of 1958. To pull up T.W.A., Hughes picked an old airman. Californian Thomas climbed...
...rank-and-file party workers-already in real trouble fighting the Democratic tide, already aware that Ike is of little value in local elections-who are appalled at the thought of the Administration's being a deadweight. Only four G.O.P. Senators, Vermont's George Aiken and Ralph Flanders, New York's Jacob Javits, Kansas' Frank Carlson, supported the President's stand on Adams-and they are not candidates...
Dictum & Dry Rot. In 1920, with the backing of Ralph Pulitzer, who became the World's publisher on his father's death in 1911, Swope knocked out a few partitions to make himself a suitably imposing office, brought in the first rugs ever seen on the twelfth floor of the World building on Park Row, and hung on the door a brand-new title of his own devising: Executive Editor...
...World. But as the '20s drew on, both the World and Swope got weary. Under Pulitzer's sons Ralph and Herbert, the World gradually lost ground to the Times and the Herald Tribune. In 1929 Swope finally quit. Two years later, Pulitzer's sons broke their father's will, which stipulated that the World should never be sold, turned over the paper to Scripps-Howard for $5,000,000. (The name survives as the New York World-Telegram...