Word: rans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...became the darling of the Townsendites (though he nimbly avoided endorsing the Townsend Plan). He got on the chicken a la king and mashed potatoes circuit: Kiwanis, Rotary, the Elks. Then, at 31, when the time looked right, Humphrey plunged into politics, aiming high. He ran for mayor of Minneapolis, came in second in a field of ten. In the runoff he lost out by only 5,000 votes...
...most severe blizzards in U.S. history. It invaded the U.S. from Canada, bellowed across the Dakotas, parts of Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas and Colorado almost without warning. It lasted for three days; temperatures dropped far below freezing (lowest: 11 below zero at Laramie, Wyo.), and the wind ran as high as 75 miles an hour...
Motorists and bus passengers were marooned in stores, juke joints, crossroads hamlets all over the storm area. Like the 343 who spent three days jammed in a tavern at tiny (pop. 4) Rockport, Colo, many went without beds and got short rations as supplies ran out. Fifty-eight stranded people at nearby Lone Tree fared better-drivers of two stalled Safeway trucks obligingly unloaded groceries and distributed them to the hungry...
...Director of Training Plans he was general manager of the Commonwealth's pilot-training program for a year and a half. Then, as a member of the Air Staff, he saw the R.C.A.F. in action from Britain to India. In the North African desert, his jeep ran over a land mine. Lucky Campbell's worst injury was a broken eardrum (which has healed...
William Joshua Richard Jr. of Winthrop House and Pelham, New York, was elected First Marshal of the Class of '49 in elections yesterday, Amory Houghton Jr. '50, chairman of the Student Council's Glass Affairs Committee which ran the election announced last night...