Word: tuckered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After three days they nominated their presidential candidate. Although he had said he would not run again, it turned out to be Princeton-bred ('05), aging Norman Thomas, who had already carried the Socialist banner in five straight presidential elections. They picked Tucker P. Smith, an economics professor from Olivet, Mich., to run for Vice President. Then they went back home to hope and argue and wait for the recalcitrant world to come to its senses...
...Sophie Tucker, 64, everlasting "Last of the Red-Hot Mammas," trotted stoutly into a veterans' hospital in Coral Gables, Fla. to spread a little cheer. In the course of the proceedings, square-rigged Sophie lost her footing, went hard aground, broke two toes, departed the hospital in a wheelchair...
...GRANBERY TUCKER Washington...
Trials of Tucker. It was a mixed week for Auto Designer Preston Tucker. On the good side, the War Assets Administration extended his temporary lease on part of the huge surplus Dodge plant in Chicago for ten years. On the not-so-good side, Tucker took full-page ads to explain that his rear-engined Tucker '48 would be "coming off production lines in a matter of months"-instead of by Christmas, as he had originally announced. He was also sued for $900,000 by Harold A. Karsten, one of the organizers of Tucker's company (TIME, July...
Honor, expressed in a college-wide policy on examinations, is the cornerstone of the Virginia gentlemen's code. No proctors have been required at Virginia finals since Judge Henry St. George Tucker of the law school proposed the pledge now submitted to all exam-takers beginning: "I do hereby certify that I have derived no assistance during the time of this examination from any source whatever." Today without a signature to this document a paper is automatically failed...