Word: van
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...coincidence Attorney General Walter D. Van Riper, who had come in to clean out Hague's bailiwick, was being tried last week in Federal Court on embarrassing charges-dealing in black-market gasoline. And Hague's opposition, the "Liberation ticket," had split in mid-campaign. Four of its members were accusing a fifth of selling out to the Boss...
...nominate Lincoln in 1860. His father, Aaron Vandenberg, was a harness-maker who was cleaned out in the Cleveland panic of 1893. After that, Father Vandenberg gave his son the stern ad monition: "Always be a Republican." In the government club at Grand Rapids' Central High School, young "Van," who had a flair for oratory, was the "Senator from Michigan." Few doubted even then that he would like to have the title in fact. He did odd jobs to help out the family finances, tried one year at the University of Michigan, but working and studying were too much...
Borrowing some money, Van bought Herald stock, prospered, married, bought a house, raised three children. His first wife died in 1916. Two years later he married a former college friend. Hazel Whitaker, a women's-page writer for the Chicago Tribune. The Vandenbergs became solid citizens of Grand Rapids. (In 1928, when the Herald was sold, Vandenberg's stock brought...
Making of an Editor. As an editor, Van paid little attention to the news and circulation departments, concentrated on editorials. Pictures of that era show him a young, round-faced man with heavy, horn-rimmed glasses, sitting by his desk and typewriter, where he pounded out editorials, single-spaced and with almost no margin. He was always smoking a cigar, and he threw the butts behind the radiator...
Beyond being Hammerstein's biggest plum, Oklahoma! may have started his greatest partnership. He and Composer Rodgers have a second smash in Carousel; as Broadway producers, they are cleaning up on John van Druten's I Remember Mama; under the title of Williamson Music Inc. (both their fathers were named William), they are highly successful music publishers; Hollywood is excited over the forthcoming cinemusical they have made of State Fair; and they have plans afoot for another Broadway show...