Word: veteran
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...less aggressive type than Longstreth, this might be considered a dubious honor. Dilworth is a vote-getter. An honored Marine veteran of both world wars (an arm wound in the Soissons drive of 1918, a Silver Star from Guadalcanal), Dick Dilworth is a successful Philadelphia lawyer, specializing in libel suits. He was elected city treasurer in 1949 and was a key man on the Democratic team that ousted the Republican machine from the city hall after 67 unbroken years of sodden rule. In 1951 he was elected district attorney...
...criminality of sodomy was debated by two of the nation's most eminent jurists. Veteran (29 years) Judge John J. Parker, 69, of the U.S. Fourth Circuit (Richmond) Court of Appeals, opposed the argument that private homosexuality should not be enjoined by the law merely because the law, pragmatically, cannot stop it. Said he: "There are many things that are denounced by the criminal code in order that society may know that the state disapproves . . . When we fly in the face of public opinion, evidenced by the code of every state in this Union, we are not proposing...
...hole to fill on the staff. City Editor Fendall Yerxa, whose authority has gradually been sapped and his staff cut out from under him, had resigned to become executive editor of the Wilmington (Del.) News and Journal-Every Evening. Into his place Brownie put Luke Carroll, 39, veteran (13 years) Trib staffer and its onetime Chicago correspondent, who will also continue as news editor. Brownie had an even bigger announcement. He was pulling Trib Managing Editor Everett Walker, 48, off the daily paper entirely, moving him over to pep up the Sunday Trib, which has long been...
Even in stolid Milwaukee Smokey Alston found himself managing a teamful of unexpected trouble. Jackie Robinson, his uninhibited veteran third baseman who had barely stopped popping off about how seldom he was playing, came forth with a new idea: he thought he ought to sit out a few games. Milwaukee, however, was no place for Robinson to rest. His visit had already been disturbed by a process server. Last season, in a fit of pique, he had slung a bat into the Milwaukee stands. A couple of local customers, who said they had been hit, were suing...
...when Edward J. Engel, a Santa Fe veteran of 40 years, became president, he brought in, as executive vice president and heir apparent, young Fred Gurley, who started railroading at 17 as a Burlington clerk, made a name for himself as a diesel man. Engel had the vision to see how dieselization (with Gurley bossing the job) could give the Santa Fe greater speed, lower operating costs...