Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stripe in 1956. After setting himself up as a favorite-son candidate, Happy is expected to take to Chicago a delegation instructed to vote for him under the unit rule. From that position, he will be able to trade the Kentucky delegation for whatever he can get. Said one veteran Kentucky politician: "Happy will be for Happy and nobody else...
...nearly every speech, Longstreth talked about his wish to bring "Eisenhower Republicanism" to Philadelphia. But he was unable to make the President of the U.S. an issue in the local campaign. Philadelphians knew that they had been getting good government, and they knew the veteran Dilworth far better than they knew amateur Longstreth. The final count: 420,099 for Dilworth to 288,646 for Longstreth. Although Dilworth's margin was less than Adlai Stevenson's Philadelphia margin over Dwight Eisenhower in 1952, it was the worst beating a Republican candidate for mayor of Philadelphia had ever taken...
...already come and will come before the proposed new college and library, however. The first step toward the goal of one desk per room was the reduction of incoming freshman classes from 1,150 to 1,000 despite greatly increased applications for admissions. This was much less than the veteran swelled post-war peak of some 7,500 college students, but resident fraternity houses had disappeared during the war to leave the colleges and freshman dorms still over-crowded when the veterans left...
...casual visitor with the atmosphere and spirit at Harvard. Rather, they were directed at the football team, this week going through the practice routine for the last time this season. They were not window dressing appeals to "The Old College Try," but instead, the sincere effort of a veteran of 27 Yale games, a man who loves football, and a man who, like a true athlete, loves...
...report, which was issued as a House subcommittee prepared to open hearings and question reporters on the same subject, was the work of Allen Raymond, 63, a veteran newsman who won his credentials at home and abroad on the New York Times and Herald Tribune. To measure censorship-at-the-source in Washington, Reporter Raymond spent six weeks interviewing capital newsmen as well as officials. His sober, 70-page roundup put together facts that have long rankled reporters in the capital. Samples...