Word: sidney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Trap. For a long time they had been planning to trap someone of Wallace's stature, but they were not sure just who the quarry would be. They began in Sidney Hillman's C.I.O.-P.A.C., whose simple objective was to make labor's influence felt in the Democratic Party. But the secret aim of pro-Communist operators like Hillman's counsel, John Abt, was to weld radical labor groups, disaffected Democrats and odds & ends of disgruntled Americans into a third party. Obviously, they would need a candidate. Collaborating with the proCommunists were such New Dealers...
Pundit Henry Wallace, briefly interrupting his Third Party crusade for a picnic in Asbury Park, N.J., paired off with Congressional Candidate Sidney Stolberg in a game of old-fashioned Indian wrestling (see cut), won four straight falls...
...years since four teen-age students at London's Royal Academy of Music had gone together to a concert of Belgium's famed Pro Arte String Quartet, of which Maas was the cellist. They came away determined to form a quartet of their own. The four-Violinists Sidney Griller and Jack O'Brien, Cellist Colin Hampton and Violist Philip Burton-decided over a pint of beer that the way to become a quartet was to live together, break all family ties, refuse engagements to play separately...
...take his place he picked Gulf President James Frank Drake, 67, a Mellon-trained man who has worked for the family since 1919. Into the presidency went Vice President Sidney A. Swensrud, 47, an oilman right after old Bill Mellon's heart. An honor graduate of Harvard's business school, he left a teaching job there to join Standard Oil Co. (of Ohio) in 1928, was vice president in charge of production when Bill Mellon hired him a year ago. With Swensrud as chief administrative officer, Gulf is certain to continue on its big-spending Mellon...
...Died. Sidney Preston Osborn, 64, ninth governor of Arizona; of progressive muscular paralysis† in Phoenix. Unable to speak or write towards the end, Osborn insisted on being carried to his office, where he "dictated" by pointing at an alphabet, registered opinion by nodding...