Word: rulers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Glad-handing Louis Johnson was a big joiner; he became Exalted Ruler of the Elks, president of Rotary, national commander of the American Legion. In the Legion he first came to Franklin Roosevelt's notice by silencing a Legion outcry when Roosevelt cut veterans' pensions in 1933. After ex-Governor Harry Woodring of Kansas became Secretary of War in 1936, Roosevelt called fire-eating Louis Johnson in as his assistant, in charge of all procurement and industrial mobilization...
...Detroit. To this Bavaria, America has brought not only snack bars and jukeboxes but also a man who is easily the most interesting ruler the country has known since mad King Ludwig II. He is Murray D. van Wagoner, onetime Michigan state commissioner of roads, onetime governor of Michigan, today governor of Bavaria. A portly, ruddy-faced man with a kind of gruff charm, Van Wagoner engages in no such lunacies as Ludwig, who built bizarre stone castles all over Bavaria, and ended his life by jumping into a lake. Van Wagoner's castles are all built...
...gratitude: a 195-foot diesel yacht, complete with 25-man crew, dishes, linen, and a sheep pen on the upper deck. "There's nothing elaborate about it," said American Independent's President Ralph Davies. "It's merely in good taste, and appropriate. He's the ruler of a country; he can't be expected to ride in a rowboat...
...year-old deposed ruler of the Balkan state, who has been in this country about a month, spent yesterday on the south bank of the Charles "studying American business methods' and talking to faculty members and newspapermen...
Ever since he got around aging Dan Tobin and became the real ruler of the Teamsters Union, Seattle's tough, pale-eyed Dave Beck has been remolding the A.F.L.'s biggest labor group to suit his fancy. Last week in Manhattan, Beck announced what he proposed to do with his juggernaut when he gets it well-streamlined. He was going to start a coast-to-coast organizing roundup that would make other labor-recruiting drives look like ballet tryouts...