Word: roland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Union Pacific lost an antitrust suit and was forced to sell its Southern Pacific stock in 1913. W. Averell Harriman, now Governor of New York, took over as U.P. board chairman in 1932, held the title until 1946 when he handed it over to his younger brother, E. Roland Harriman...
...Cleary intercepted a poor clearance by defenseman Mike McDonough, skated around the other defenseman, Roland Rabitor, and completely faked Crawford to score unassisted at 17:10. The period closed with the Crimson ahead, 4 to 2, just after Albie Wells had been penalized...
Harriman was also noted at Yale for his expertness as an oarsman. When he was a boy back at Arden, his father had hired the great Syracuse University crew coach, Jim Ten Eyck, to spend a month on the Harrimans' private lake teaching Averell and Roland to row. Averell was so good that, when Yale decided to use amateur coaches, he was assigned to coach the freshman crew. He wangled leave from classes, went to England to learn the long Oxford stroke, came home and introduced it successfully at Yale. When he became varsity coach, he appointed...
...managed well. One monument to her imagination is the 2,257-ft.-long Bear Mountain Bridge, across the Hudson River 35 miles above Manhattan. She saw the need of a bridge there, and her younger son, E. Roland Harriman, now a Manhattan financier (and still a Republican), built the bridge (now state-owned) as a private venture. By the time mother Harriman died, in 1932, she was able to leave her two sons and three daughters a multimillion-dollar heritage...
Last January energetic French High Commissioner Roland Pré instituted some reforms of his own. Anxious to cut down the top-heavy local administrative setup in the Cameroons, he began looking for likely natives to serve in local municipal offices. When he canvassed the natives of Foumban on their choice for mayor, the answer was a landslide for Sultan Seydou...