Word: russel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...careful Tom Dewey has not neglected to make solid connections on the political side. He works hand in glove with shrewd Edwin F. Jaeckle, State G.O.P. chairman, and J. Russel Sprague, boss of Nassau County's Republican machine. He maintains close working relations with G.O.P. legislative leaders. His political secretary is smooth, amiable Paul E. Lockwood, his onetime executive assistant in the District Attorney's office...
...Wrote Russel G. Idle of Collinsville, Ill.: "I live with my family in the central part of the U.S.A. near the east shore of the great river, the Mississippi. ... I am healthy, hardened, lean and tough (I hope). I work on live electric wires from no volts to 66 kilovolts. . . . Most of us laboring people have confidence in you. We think you are a fair and helping ally, or what we call 'square shooters.' We feel you are nearest like us, than any other people...
...Washington's huge new Census Bureau Building raged a pitched battle. OPA's "slide-rule boys," the Leon Henderson carryovers headed by gangling "5-ft.-20-in." Deputy Price Administrator J. Kenneth Galbraith, grappled with the new "let's-be-reasonable boys," headed by stocky Lou Russel Maxon, the Detroit advertising wizard whom Prentiss Brown hired to humanize...
...Ecole Polytechnique. In the first World War LeCorbeiller was advanced to the rank of Captain in the French Signal Corps. He is reluctant to speak of his experiences in the last war except to say that he was liaison officer between the French and our own Major General Edgar Russel, chief signal officer of the American Expeditionary Force. (You fellows from Menmouth will remember Russel Hall, named after him.) Dr. LeCorbeiller recalls with pleasure the grand and glorious times he had with the American Signal Officers at the end of the first World...
...Washington term for the academicians who used to be called "brain-trusters" is "slide-rule boys." Last week the slide-rule boys were engaged in a struggle for survival with a man fresh to the capital-Lou Russel Maxon, second-in-command to Prentiss Brown...