Word: underwoods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Frederick Marcus Farwell, 50, resigned as president and chief executive officer of ailing (first-quarter deficit: $624,978) typewriter-maker Underwood Corp., moved on to a new job as an executive vice president of International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. Chicago-born, Yale-educated ('28) Farwell was an executive at International Business Machines and waxmaker S. C. Johnson & Son before taking over Underwood's presidency in 1955 with the job of reorganizing the company from top to bottom. When the company continued to lose money and Underwood's board of directors turned down a proposed merger with National Cash...
West Virginia. Personable, boyish Republican Cecil Underwood, onetime biology teacher and at 34 a veteran of twelve years in the legislature, promised a pack of reforms, e.g., an end to state-employee shakedowns, proposed a new era of Eisenhower Republicanism, took oath of office as haughty outgoing Democrat William Marland looked on unsmilingly...
...resented G.O.P. Governor Leo Hoegh's move-fast, high-tax program (TIME, Oct. 22), and elected Democrat Herschel Loveless. In West Virginia, corruption charges against the outgoing Democratic state administration resulted in the election of Republican Old Guardsman Chapman Revercomb to the U.S. Senate and of Republican Cecil Underwood, a party comer at 34, as governor (Democratic House Incumbent M. G. Burnside lost to Republican Will Neal partly because the Democratic administration messed up a garbage-hauling contract). In the Great Plains, farm unrest caused the defeat of Republican House incumbents in South Dakota and Montana...
...West Virginia, 34-year-old Republican Cecil Underwood, onetime teacher of biology and now vice president of Salem (W. Va.) College, upset favored Democrat Robert Mollohan. Underwood, a six-term member of the state house of delegates, campaigned hard and sharp against the statehouse machine, the so-called "flower fund" to which state employees allegedly had to contribute 2% of their salaries, and the state road commission, which, he claimed, made "more millionaires of equipment dealers than it has good roads...
...five, and Governor William C. Marland edged past State Attorney General John G. Fox to win the Democratic nomination. But in the race for governor, Democrats turned their backs on Marland-backed Milton J. Ferguson, picked Congressman Robert H. Mollohan to run against the G.O.P.'s Cecil H. Underwood, minority leader of the state house...