Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard Law School student in 1916. He served as a field-artillery officer in World War I, returned to Indiana to become (in 1919) law professor at Indiana University and later (1925-33), dean of the university law school. Elected national commander of the American Legion in 1927, he rode the Roosevelt wave into office four years later as Indiana's first Democratic governor in 16 years. In 1937 he was appointed High Commissioner to the Philippines by F.D.R., returned to Washington in 1939 and served as Federal Security Administrator (1939-45) and War Manpower Commissioner...
...Hoffer lost his sight in a childhood tumble, and though he regained his vision eight years later, he never finished grade school. At 18 he lit out for California and landed on Los Angeles' skid row. "It was then," he says, "that I first began to live." He rode the rails up and down the state, picking oranges, swinging sledges in railroad section gangs, lumberjacking. prospecting. On a gold-digging trip to the Sierras he took along a copy of Montaigne's essays. "We were snowed in and I read it straight through three times. I quoted...
...Springfield co-captin Don Stubblebine (130) pinned Bob Holmes, replacing Phil Andrews, after 6:34; Joe Alissi (137) decisioned Dave Jordan, who came off the sicklist to fill in four injured Phil Burnaman; and co-captained John Mulligan (147) took Mike Murray 6 to 0. George Harunk (157) rode Len Miller to a 5 to 0 victory...
...Director Sees, charged the Government, personally rode herd on the operation. Sees's motto, according to one witness, was "The more you squeeze [an advertiser] the more you get out of [him]." He often peppered his staff with such memos as "I notice Sullivan is still in the Journal-Post. Why? Why? Why?" An ex-Star staffer testified that Sees would "pound his fist on the desk and say, 'Go tell that so-and-so he's wasting his money advertising any place but in the Star...
...reported the Automobile Manufacturers Association of Detroit, a record 8,900,000 school pupils rode to class in publicly owned or chartered school buses. Cost: $300 million, or 5% of the nation's school budget...