Word: sizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mergers. But the clubbiness did not get in the way of running the bank. In its 112 years, the bank passed serenely through a score of scares and panics. Girardmen like to say that it is almost the only top U.S. bank (in size, it is No. 86 in the U.S.) that has never merged or consolidated. And since 1837 it has failed to pay a dividend only once...
Herman Eugene ("Hummon") Talmadge, 35, who had tried it on once before for size, triumphantly accepted the mantle of the governorship of Georgia last week. He allowed it would be a good fit after some tailoring...
...good old days, when Carnegie Tech made no bones about buying football talent, Halfback Wild Bill Donohoe was a pigskin hero. One unforgettable Saturday in 1926, after he and his teammates whittled Notre Dame down to size (19-0), Wild Bill was toasted far into the welkinrung night. But, alas for heroes, the same Wild Bill Donohoe, on the same campus, was now the goat...
...might not be a bad idea. A Cabinet of gargantuan size would force the soothsayers out into the open, and the public could select those with genuine imaginative powers from the common herd of predictors. As it is, almost every seer is compelled to inflict the same old ordinary palaver on his audience. Few variations are possible--such as suggesting Eisenhower for Secretary of Agriculture instead of Defense--and these have been nearly exhausted by now. So have the prophets; and, it is fervently to be hoped, the public will get a little tired...
Harvard will meet a variety of Big Seven teams in that Christmas Vacation tourney at Kansas City, but Coach Barclay predicts that the Crimson will be able to match the mid-westerners in size and speed at least. "We have enough players of different shapes and sizes to match any combination we'll run up against," he said yesterday...