Word: undertook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...family of five found New England to their liking; Yovicsin wanted to meet the challenge of fielding a good team under the Ivy League rules. With this settled, the Yovicsin family took up residence in Framingham, and Yovicsin himself undertook the task of transforming Harvard football. The record of that transformation has been evident all fall. After an initial shock when for various personal reasons some key players left the squad, his team has enjoyed playing for him. He asks only that each player work his hardest, and he in turn works hard for them. Players on the junior varsity...
...Liberal Union, the only student political organization consenting to sponsor the drive, undertook it in order to give tangible support to Southerners who have attempted to comply with the Supreme Court desegregation rulings...
...heart attack; in Manhattan. Ontario-born Dollar went to work at 17 for his father, succeeded him in 1931 as head of the family shipping empire, but was forced out in 1938 when Dollar Steamship Lines defaulted on a $7,500,000 federal loan. After the war, Dollar undertook a seven-year court fight with the U.S. Government for control of the ships, finally settled in 1952 for $9,000,000, half the proceeds from a public sale of the 17-vessel line...
...spring show was the first HDC production to have its whole run downtown; the group rented the Plymouth (now the Gary) Theatre for Irwin Shaw's The Survivors, and went $5,000 into the red. The next fall production also lost heavily. In a desperate gamble, the HDC undertook an ambitious $9,000 mounting of Kaufman and Hart's The Man Who Came to Dinner, with Monty Woolley as imported guest star. Thanks largely to Woolley, this was the best show the HDC staged during this period, and it drew huge crowds. The artistic success was forgotten. however, as soon...
...urged some farmers to reduce their cotton acreage, urged others to increase it. At the start of World War II, he was placed in charge of relocating West Coast Japanese in the U.S. interior, carried out a heartbreaking job with personal dignity. At Franklin Roosevelt's request, he undertook a monumental study of all Government information agencies and their relationship to national defense, helped frame the charter for the Office of War Information. And in 1943, even while continuing to serve as a top-level Government consultant, he answered another call: he returned to Kansas State as its president...