Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...various Lowden-for-President clubs claim that their candidate will have the delegates of Missouri, Colorado, Indiana, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, and Wisconsin. This would give him a bloc of about three hundred delegates in the convention. The estimate is optimistic but not impossible. For, as Mark Sullivan has pointed out, the present disposition of Lowden's rivals is not to oppose him in the States which his friends regard as his farm constituency, partly because they think Lowden will win these States any-way and partly "because the Republican leaders do not want to give further occasion...
...omnipotent War Industries Board, charged with controlling and purchasing all the raw materials and industrial fabrications the Allies required of the U.S. to prosecute the War. Upon accepting this post, Mr. Baruch sold out enormously valuable stock holdings lest they bias his judgment, and at Washington (as Writer Mark Sullivan said) went "flying down the road with his tail over the dash board . . . regardless of authorization, money or detail. When there isn't any money available, he uses his own." There being some trouble over renting an office floor, he said, "buy the building." To quote Sullivan again...
...nervous, thin little man from Sullivan, Ind., who steadied his chin on his tall, starched collar and rabbited at his lower lip until it bled, was star witness of the week before the Senate Public Lands Committee, continuing its dredging of the Oil Scandals. He was Will H. Hays, who managed the Harding Campaign as G. O. P. chairman, then landed in the Cabinet as Postmaster General, then became "tsar" of the cinema industry, which lofty office he still fills...
...Haines, head coach of the Freshman crews, supervised the work of the 1931 oarsmen, together with F. R. Sullivan '27, former coxswain of the University crew. There was a stiff breeze, and an occasional cake of ice floated down upon the Leviathan, but the oarsmen encountered no major difficulties. The Freshmen have been working on the tank in Newell Boat House since February 6, when the call for candidates was sounded...
...catcher's berth, has been taking his turn regularly behind the bat with a recently-formed first-string infield, made up of R. E. Durkee '29, and J. A. Prior '29 alternating at the first-base position, J. J. Carver '30 at the keystone sack, R. C. Sullivan '28 at shortstop, and G. E. Donaghy '29 at the hot corner...