Word: usher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Walter H. Caulfield, Jr.: Dunster House Comm. (Chair., Sec.); Honorary Junior Usher; House Athletics...
...phenomenal expenditures as $15 million for an atomic-submarine power plant (about as much as a World War II light cruiser), $8,000,000 for an intercontinental B-52 jet bomber (as much as 42 World War II 6-175), $3 billion for an intercontinental missile program that will usher the U.S. into the costlier age of space...
...bank in a wicker bas ket, he was a tireless dabbler in civil affairs. He led the movement for the summertime Empire State Music Festival that attracted thousands of culture seekers and dollars to Ellenville, was a district president in 1953 of the State Bankers Association, head usher of the Methodist Church. In the quiet little summer-resort village (pop. 5,000) two hours from Manhattan, literally everyone was in his debt; he did two-thirds of the town's banking business, furnished 70% of its credit. "I've got to go up and see Uncle Bill...
...this point the member just about abandons all hope of.coming out of the session with complete mental balance," North Dakota Congressman Usher Burdick wrote to his constituents about the frantic last days. "People who want this or that bill swarm the Capitol in person or flood the Congressmen with letters and telegrams, some even threatening members with political extinction unless ..." Amid the tumult and turmoil the Congress nevertheless got plenty of action (or inaction) on "this or that bill...
...graduate of the University of Cincinnati ('08) with a doctorate from Harvard Law School, Bevis served as state finance director under two Ohio governors, after a stint on the state Supreme Court and five years at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration arrived at Ohio State to usher in its era of greatest prosperity and controversy. He aroused student and faculty resentment by insisting that he screen all campus speakers, earned the censure of the American Association of University Professors by firing Physicist Byron Darling for invoking the Fifth Amendment before a House investigating committee. He made bitter...