Word: shays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Appointed as his fifth (of six) administrative assistants Sherman ("Shay") Minton, 50, defeated Senator from Indiana. Tall, black-haired, jut-jawed Mr. Minton, a 200% New Dealer, will get $10,000 a year; will not be used as liaison man with Congress-where his forthright tongue too often rasped colleagues...
Also shaken in his "safe" seat was the Democrats' Senate whip, Sherman ("Shay") Minton of Indiana. Atop the seesaw at mid-count was jelly-chinned, 65-year-old Editor Raymond Eugene Willis, a safe-&-solid Republican...
...Raymond Eugene Willis, 65, was one of nine children of an Indiana country editor, since 1907 has edited the Steuben Republican. Chubby-handed. chubby-chinned Editor Willis' hobby is helping crippled children (his wife is an invalid). His formidable 1940 task: to unhorse Democrat Sherman ("Shay") Minton...
...week the Times-Star celebrated its 100th anniversary with a 318-page centennial issue. In an unwonted display of high animal spirits, the staff set off 100 small bombs as a five-pound birthday edition rolled off the presses. A man in a top hat, driving a one-horse shay, went out to distribute copies. The mammoth issue sold for 3?, went to some 300,000 readers: double the normal circulation (153,240) of the Times-Star...