Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...alienating many of his patriotic friends and earning enduring hostility from others. He entered politics in 1924 as the Socialist and Progressive candidate for Governor of New York. After the death of Eugene V. Debs in 1926, he became leader of the U.S. Socialist Party and two years later ran for President for the first time. In 1932, at the depth of the Depression, he polled 884,649 votes; in his last race in 1948, he got only...
...once served a term in the Illinois State Legislature; of a heart attack; in Scottsdale, Ariz. A staid businessman for 35 years, Earl plunged into politics in 1964, was top Republican vote getter in an unprecedented at-large election for the Illinois House of Representatives. Two years later he ran for clerk of heavily Democratic Cook County. He lost by a substantial margin and retired to Arizona...
...biggest loser was Eastern Air Lines, which ran an $11.8 million deficit in this year's first eleven months. It failed in a bid to broaden its horizons to Pago Pago, Papeete and other South Pacific spots. Not even close connections in the White House did much for an other loser, American Airlines. Its former chairman, C. R. Smith, is Johnson's Commerce Secretary, but American's application for a Tokyo run was rejected...
Lethal Right. Raised on a ranch in Pottawatomie County, Kans. Willard migrated to Oklahoma, where he broke horses and ran a frontier freight-wagon service, Marveling at the way Big Jess tossed around 500-lb. bales of cotton, his friends told him that he was just the man to thrash Jack Johnson good and proper. Like many Americans, they considered it a national disgrace that Johnson, who eventually married three white women and romanced countless others, was allowed to reign as champion.* Willard who had never seen a boxing match sold his business and at 29 went into the ring...
...reign of a king-consort, Gustav von Bohlen und Hal-bach. Hand-picked by the Kaiser to marry the munitions business, he was also granted the right to use the Krupp name and to pass it along, though only for one generation and only to his eldest son. He ran the Konzern until 1943, outdoing the Krupps in ruthless efficiency. Gustav's only diversion seems to have been reading timetables for typographical errors. He allocated precisely 60 minutes a week to playing with his children-for his day was devoted to building the world's first and biggest...