Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Southerner Dick Russell picked up an ally in the West, Colorado's veteran Senator Ed Johnson, who agreed to manage the Russell'campaign. "We've been trying to get Europe to forget prejudices and unite," Johnson said. "If unity on that side of the Atlantic is good, it should be good on this side...
...mayor of Alhambra (pop. 52,753), Calif, presented a big bouquet of flowers to Mrs. Nobuko Coronel, Filipino-Japanese war bride of a hometown veteran, to help convince her that she was welcome in the U.S. The greeting ceremony was arranged (and more than 70 citizens were moved to write letters of welcome) after a local citizen had sent her a note condemning her marriage to Corporal Robert A. Coronel and warning her that she was not wanted in Alhambra...
Headed by Jim Ratliff, a veteran Enquirer reporter, a committee of staffers quickly pledged savings, insurance and cash to raise more than $1,000,000 as a start towards buying the paper...
...Into the presidency of Parker Pen Co. stepped Bruce Mouat Jeffris, 56, a veteran °f 33 years with the company and boyhood friend of Kenneth Parker, who is moving over to chairman. A graduate of Brown University and the Navy, Jeffris has been vice president and treasurer for Parker since 1947, is expected to hold down the presidency until Kenneth Parker's son Daniel, 27, is ready to take over. Directors last week moved ex-Marine Dan Parker, the third generation in the company, up from secretary to executive vice president...
...wife Celia 1) put broken glass in his bed, 2) hid his car keys and let the air out of his tires, 3) beat him with her shoes. 4) threatened to poison him, 5) was more trying, all in all, than the Iwo Jima campaign had been, Marine Veteran George Bushmire summed it all up: "She didn't cooperate in making our marriage work...