Word: springfields
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...final extra-league splash before taking on Pennsylvania this Saturday, the Crimson swimmers meet a fair team from Springfield College at 8 p.m. tonight in the Blockhouse. Harvard will once again be heavily favored...
Business Career. Got his first job working 72 hours a week for a New London, Conn. shipbuilder. Came out of World War I a Navy lieutenant, j.g. (served on the U.S.S. Mississippi). In 1919 went to Springfield, Mass. as a salesman for the Package Machinery Co. Became president eight years later. During the Depression, when many firms laid off men, Putnam's poured in money to develop new machinery, kept employment at a high level by going on a five-day week, pioneered profit-sharing, life-insurance and wage-bonus plans. He is comfortably wealthy...
Politics: Formerly a Republican, he voted for F.D.R. in 1932, has been a "consistent liberal Democrat" ever since. Elected mayor of Springfield in 1937. Re-elected mayor twice (1939, 1941). Ran for governor in 1942, but lost to Leverett Saltonstall. Putnam is almost unknown in Washington...
Shortcut. In Springfield, Mass., a thief rushed up to Pedestrian Dennis Kneeland, snipped off part of his necktie, missed by an inch getting his $150 diamond stickpin...
December8 M.I.T. 15 Williams January 12 Boston University 16 Tufts February 9 at Springfield 16 Brown 23 at Army March 1 Columbia 8 Yale 14-15 EIWA Championships at Easton