Word: ridgway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...annual army week, the 133rd anniversary of independence from Spain. There was a three-hour-long parade, followed by wreath-laying ceremonies, honorary reviews and state receptions. The two guests of honor, General Canrobert Pereira da Costa, Brazil's war minister, and Lieut. General Matthew B. Ridgway, commander of U.S. forces in the Caribbean, both got decorations...
Everhart, Thomas Eugene of 312 North Minnesota Street, Wichita, East High, Wichita. Fox, Robert Tinley of 3302 walnut Street, Omaha; Central High, Omaha. Richards Lloyd Wayland of 4225 Douglis Street, Omaha; Central High. Ridgway, Dale Scott of 2715 Mayland Street, Topeka, Kan.; Topeka High...
...dinner in the high-ceilinged ballroom of Philadelphia's Bellevue-Stratford last week, white-thatched Joseph Ridgway ("Uncle Joe") Grundy resigned at 84 as chairman of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers Association's executive committee. In Pennsylvania, this could be equaled in news value, if not in importance, only by the resignation of Connie Mack from the Athletics...
Advance Continued. At the time Ed Martin joined up, Joseph Ridgway Grundy, the cherubic, wealthy Quaker millowner and cold, shrewd defender of high tariffs, was rising to power. "Uncle Joe" Grundy, as Martin still calls him, had been dictating tariff bills since 1897. His masterpiece was the Smoot-Hawley bill of 1930, which precipitated an economic world war and was one underlying cause of World War II. To some Joe Grundy was an ogre. To his friends, the white-haired, thee-saying Quaker was just an old-fashioned businessman. The machine served Grundy...
...Matt Ridgway could be proud...