Word: switzer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other juniors on the team are Paul Altrocchi, Bill Borah, Alden Davis, Ambie Redmond, John, Stevenson, and Alan Switzer. Quentin Stiles, besides those mentioned, is the remaining senior on the squad. Forrest "Woody" Hansen, 6:5 center Dick Lionette, and forward Jim Urdan are coming up from the freshman team...
Having got wisdom off his chest, Thompson got down to business. He was there to sell 306 purebred Hereford cattle from the nearby Switzer & Field ranch. Quickly he sold nine animals for a total of $39,925, topped the whole lot with a whopping $46,000 for one prize bull, Baca OJR Royal I. In two arm-flailing days filled with Thompson's rolling oratory, he and four assistants sold the entire Switzer & Field herd...
Last came the nomination of Carroll Switzer to an Iowa judgeship. Switzer was the Democrats' defeated 1948 candidate for governor, and Harry Truman had not consulted Iowa's Senator Guy Gillette about appointing him to the bench. "A personal affront," said Gillette. Senators -who might want the favor returned some day-shouted their support of Gillette, rebuffing Harry Truman for the fourth time in one afternoon...
...discontent worried husky Silas Switzer, who had come over from Virginia on orders of the International a year before. Already there had been violence-rock-throwing, punch-throwing, even gunfire and intervention by the National Guard-and now it felt as if more was in the air. "If you're thinking about violence," Si Switzer pleaded, "get down on your knees and talk to God about it-He'll give you an answer...
Back in town, Si Switzer-still black & blue from some therapy administered by National Guardsmen three weeks ago-paced the floor while his chubby wife fought back the tears. "I wish we were home," she moaned. "I don't like it here...