Word: ryans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high jump resulted in a triple tie between John Bunker, Mike Zara, and the visitors' Ralph Ryan; while Dave Ives led the distance leapers. Mike Ford, Chet d'Autremont, and Bill Couch swept the pole vault for Harvard...
...their country." - The Millville, N.J. Board of Trade banqueted well-paunched Defense Commissioner Leon Henderson, elected him, as a native son, No. 1 Citizen for 1940 of Millville (pop.: 14,705). - Day after he had married 34-year-old Amelia Orr Ronin in Ensenada, Mexico, Thomas Fortune Ryan II, scion of the banking and mining empire, awoke and found that his third bride had vanished. He proceeded to Los Angeles, took a bridal suite, waited two days before the bride returned. Groaned veteran Playboy Tommy: "I don't know when the honeymoon ended, but it's over...
Minister of Agriculture Dr. James Ryan announced a serious outbreak of foot-&-mouth disease in Eire, said there is grave danger that the disease may become an epidemic. Promptly banned by Eire's Government were all horse races and horse shows, dog races, hunts and polo matches, to keep the disease from spreading. Public horse sales were stopped in 16 counties...
...Board of Directors in control of the organization consists of Louis C. Wyman, president, Gray Thoron '38, vice-president, Russell S. Bernhard, treasurer, Richard M. Ryan '38, secretary, Alan Geismer '38, senior case consultant, all three-year men, and Thomas O. Hunter '39, and Thaddeus R. Beal, second year...
...than the combined armies of the Axis." The familiar cries of defeatist, appeaser, isolationist, rose shrilly, just as the cries of warmonger had risen after the testimony of the Cabinet officers the week before. Defenders of the bill-Dorothy Thompson. William Bullitt, Major Gen eral John F. O'Ryan-came in with more arguments, all familiar. Ex-Ambassador Bullitt pointed to one difficulty: "The state of mind here today is about what it was in France a year before they en gaged in war with Germany...