Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first haymakers were aimed directly at his opponent, Mayor Bernard Samuel. Dilworth charged that 67-year-old Barney Samuel, a city payroller since 1903, tolerated bookmaking even at City Hall. He charged that City Hall workers and some merchants are annually dunned to buy the mayor a birthday present-e.g., a station wagon and a motorboat. Under Samuel, said Dilworth, a police inspector could easily pick up $30,000 a year in graft-and some inspectors were doing it. As for solving the city's acute sewage, parking, paving, housing and airport problems, the mayor has not even...
...reply, confident Barney Samuel, who is not wasting much energy campaigning, cried: "Mud-slinger." The response of voters was much livelier. Attendance at Dilworth street rallies zoomed from 50 to 3,000 (for one rally last week, a crowd of 7,500 jammed the busy intersection of Chestnut and Broad). Dilworth himself was not the only attraction. At rallies he was often preceded by Hegeman's string band, one of Philadelphia's famed Mummers'Parade organizations. His family went campaigning with him-and turned out to be just as belligerent as he. Once his wife, Ann, smacked...
...Died. Samuel Hoffenstein, 57, master writer of satiric light verse (Poems in Praise of Practically Nothing); of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. A wry-writing favorite of Manhattan's wry-minded literary set in the late '20s, Hoffenstein (who had written, I'd rather listen to a flute in Gotham, than a band in Butte) disappeared into Hollywood as a scenario writer, later explained: "In the movies we writers work our brains to the bone, and what do we get for it? A lousy fortune...
Garrett Birkhoff '32, professor of Mathematics; Howard W. Emmons, associate professor of Engineering Science; Wassily W. Leontief, professor of Economics; Donald H. Menzel, professor of Astrophysics; Julian S. Schwinger, professor of Physics; Julian S. Schwinger, professor of Physics; Samuel A. Stouffer, professor of Sociology and Director of the Laboratory of Social Relations...
Because the natural scientists have always dealt in quantitative terms, they are chafing at the bit to get at the most advanced calculator in existence. "Physicists know what they want to do with it," observes committee-member Samuel A. Stouffer of the department of Sociology, "whereas we will know much better what to do with the opportunity a year from...