Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into the lives of Democrats. Last month the party's high command in Washington decided to raise an umbrella over the longtime split between the party's left wing, led by James Roosevelt, and its right wing, led by wealthy Rancher E. George Luckey. Beneath the umbrella, veteran Congressman Harry Sheppard put together a 76-member slate of "regular" delegates to the national convention, fusing the left and the right. They were held together by Sheppard's firm promise that Harry Truman would stay in California's June 3 primary, even if he decided...
Black-mustached Group Captain George Ward, 44, a veteran R.A.F. staff officer, was presenting the R.A.F.'s $1,255,280,000 budget for 1952-53. It was his first parliamentary mission, but what he had to say sent R.A.F.-proud Britons into a jittery slow roll. "The House is aware," said Ward, "of the enormous numerical strength of the Soviet Air Force. But it is not only in numbers that we are inadequate. Even more important is the fact . . . that we are in some respects inferior in the performance of our aircraft . . . It is a hard fact that...
...Army Corps of Engineers sent out white-mustached Colonel George T. Derby, a veteran of the Pacific war, to do the job. Derby let the contracts to a pool of five U.S. companies, operating together as "Atlas Constructors," on a cost-plus-fixed-fee basis (the fee being something over...
...mend after a hernia operation in a New Orleans hospital, veteran Cinemactor Gary Cooper had plans involving his old friend and hunting companion Ernest Hemingway: "We've been talking about several stories for possible use in the future. He looks fine when he shaves. He lives pretty sanely...
...Veteran Gerry Murphy is tentatively set for the fifth slot of the forthcoming spring tour, inasmuch as Gene Mann, a promising sophomore, number one on last year's freshmen, can't make the trip. Senior Bill Goodman is slated for six, and sophomores Terry King, Dom Spencer and Herb Stone for seven, eight, and ten. Steve Sonnabend, a junior transfer from Cornell, who was ineligible last year, looks like the number nine man. Senior Dick Beche, sophomores Frank Goodman. Mike Ward, and Junior Paul Trinichieri complete the trip list...