Word: scherer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Charlie Taft who placed Democrat Cash's name in nomination. A few minutes later, Republican Councilman Gordon Scherer made the seemingly futile gesture of nominating incumbent Mayor Carl W. Rich. That done, he turned on Charlie Taft and shouted...
...Councilman Scherer had seriously hoped that his surprise stratagem would keep Republican Rich in office, he was badly mistaken. Charlie Taft set his jaw, scribbled a few notes, rose to his feet and said: "Turning one's back is neither a characteristic of my own nor, I hope, of the Charter Committee. ... It has been my conviction for some time that one detriment to my brother's candidacy is the total inadequacy of his home-town Republican organization in its contribution to good government. . . . What I may be able to do in these coming months at the city...
...squash team was defeated in its first meet of the season here Wednesday. Plimpton, number one man for Harvard, lost to Sonnabend of Tech. The next two contests in order saw Pierce and Hewson of the visitors emerge victors over Knowles and Conlon. In the final pair of matches, Scherer defeated Frothingham and Rend beat Femberg. In a later meeting, the Harvard Whites triumphed over the Harvard Reds...
Expediter. In Tulsa, Harry Eugene Scherer explained why he had laid some ties across a railroad track and stopped a passenger train: he wanted...
...Harry Bridges, Australian head of the West Coast longshoremen, notes in this connection well-known Communist plans to tie up and sabotage U. S. shipping during wartime. He also declares that C. I. O.'s Federation of Architects, Engineers, Chemists and Technicians, of which "avowed Communist" Marcel Scherer is head, has cells in seven U. S. Navy yards...