Word: townes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Halifax, the campaign was led by hardworking, hard-talking Mrs. Mary Beatrice Murphy, who kept order at consumers' meetings with a rolling pin. There were 1,500 petitions around the town, growing longer as signatures were gathered at grocery stores and bingo halls...
...Chamber goes about its main job of luring in new businesses by 1) buttonholing virtually every bigwig who comes to town, and 2) never letting a prospect off the hook. For example, Chamber representatives first approached a Pennsylvania radiator company in 1933 with studies showing how it could make money in Los Angeles. Every year thereafter they came around to elaborate on their inducements. By 1946, some of the company's officers could no longer resist a trip west to look over possible sites. When they found a likely one, the Chamber arranged for them to buy it. Upshot...
When he heard that Negro troops were segregated in a nearby town (there had been some bad riots), he said, "Policies like that are Naziism." He believed that if he, and men like him, failed, the "strong men" (meaning the pilots) would take over: "and then you've got Fascism no matter how you disguise...
There's only one undefeated Varsity in town this morning. By crushing Navy 50-25 in its own pool, the swimming team maintained winning ways in a weekend otherwise generally bleak for College sports...
...pair will take the same side of the topic, Resolved, "That the United States should withdraw its support from the Chinese Nationalist Government," Friday night when the West Point debaters come to town...