Word: ryans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Union College's President Dixon Ryan Fox warned students deferred by draft boards that they "shall not embezzle the time that the nation has put at our disposal...
...role of a youngish college instructor befallen victim to a Red-baiting campaign, interprets with keen feeling the predicament of the man who finds that the seeker of truth must travel alone and that the lonely path is hard to follow. As the "half-witted, half-baked halfback," Edmond Ryan fills a difficult role more than adequately. And Irving Locke gives a performance equal to the achievements of Walter Brennan on the screen in his role of the dean who for forty years played appeaser to the stadium-building alumni. Only Betty Kelley as the emotional wife falls short...
Married. Allan A. Ryan Jr., 37, grandson of the late, great financier, Thomas Fortune Ryan; and Priscilla ("Prune") St. George Duke, 21, "prettiest blonde divorcee in Tuxedo Park," grandniece of Sara Delano Roosevelt, ex-wife of Tobacconist Angier Biddle Duke; he for the third time, she for the second; in Tuxedo Park...
...Into four major air commands went four new commanders, all younger than their predecessors. All have reputations for energy, skill in the air, sound sense. Youngest is 49-year-old Brigadier General William O. Ryan, a pursuit commander who was assigned to the Fourth Air Force (Riverside. Calif.). To the Army's youngest major general. 51-year-old Lewis Hyde Brereton (one of the few Army men whose careers began in the Navy) goes command of the Third Air Force at Tampa, Fla. To succeed Major General James E. Chaney, who is watching World War II in Great Britain...
...Dixon Ryan Fox (president of Union College-at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute): "History will say that there were two appropriate times for us to enter this conflict-one in the autumn of 1939 . . . and the other in the summer of 1941, when it was seen to be absolutely necessary in order to avert a German peace...