Word: sigler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Joseph Jacob Schildkraut of Brooklyn and Adams, Chemistry; Harry Kane Schwartz of Philadelphia and Dunster, Government; Stephen Jay Sigler of Brooklyn and Eliot, Bio-chemistry; and John Bruder Winston of New York City and Dunster, Social Relations...
Died. Kim Sigler, 59. onetime Republican governor of Michigan (1947-48); when his private plane rammed a television tower and crashed; near Battle Creek, Mich...
Fred Alger made his biggest political mistake four years ago. During the Republican administration of Governor Kim Sigler, Alger got Soapy appointed to a Democratic vacancy on the bipartisan state liquor control commission. He misjudged Soapy's ebullient New Dealism, his youthful enthusiasm and his common touch as the signs of a willing political amateur. But genial, hard-plugging Soapy traveled the state like no liquor commissioner in history, soon turned a host of liquor dealers into personal friends, and turned his job into a first step on the Michigan political ladder. Kim Sigler's successor as governor...
...this organization activity Williams was the indispensable man. His handshaking and backslapping helped to arouse the enthusiasm of precinct and outpost alike. And above all, he beat the Republicans. The pundits give Soapy little credit for winning in 1948, because the G.O.P.'s Kim Sigler was an overconfident pushover. But they marvel at the off-year victory in 1950. It was so close that it took five weeks to determine that Soapy had beaten ex-Governor Harry Kelly...
...were duly referred through channels to the General Services Administration, Department of Buildings Management. Naturally, the situation called for a survey. That called for special equipment. So the matter was referred to the National Bureau of Standards, Division of Research and Development. There a machine was built, and labeled "Sigler Pendulum Impact Type Slipperiness Tester...