Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much chance of defeating Duff as the senatorial nominee. Instead, Grundy forces concentrated their fire on the governorship, which carries with it -the most potent patronage-disposal of 40,000 state jobs. They produced a "harmony candidate"-Colonel Jay Cooke, a retired Philadelphia investment banker and a Purple Heart veteran of both world wars. Cooke was not a completely orthodox Grundyite; he had been one of Harold Stassen...
...twelve cars were carrying home the Long Island commuters who had stayed on after dinner to work late or to spend an evening in the city. Martin Steeil, 31, an automobile insurance underwriter, a veteran of the North African and German campaigns, had been bowling with the men from his -office. Steeil's wife and two-year-old son were waiting for him in Rockville Centre. Raymond Miller, 49, vice president of an insurance company, had been cleaning up his business before the weekend. He had just missed the 9:03 and had phoned his wife in Merrick...
This week the Public Service Commission began its investigation. Both motormen, who had been riding in their cubicles on the comparatively intact right sides of the two cars, had survived. Markin had only minor injuries. Kiefer, apparently thrown clear, was suffering from severe shock. A veteran engineman of 26 years service, 55-year-old Jacob Kiefer was arrested and charged with criminal negligence...
Prince Ivan Khovansky, whose part Met Veteran Lawrence Tibbett acted better than he sang, took his music as well as his politics from the old Russia. His contingent of astrakhan-capped soldiers and gaily clad peasant followers carried him along on a swelling surge of music flavored by the Russian folk songs which Nationalist Mussorgsky loved so dearly. Mussorgsky mined the rich vein of Russian liturgical themes to back up the somber, icon-bearing Old Believers. Led by the young zealot Marfa (Rise Stevens) and the fervent patriarch Dossife (Jerome Hines), they sang the opera's most exciting music...
From his Broadway beat, Columnist Leonard Lyons last week also reported an exclusive White House story. "David K. Niles, veteran member of the White House staff," wrote Lyons in the New York Post and 72 other newspapers, "is compiling statistics on WPA graduates who become successful. Its purpose is to show that the income taxes they paid, and paid by others who earned money through the efforts of those WPA men, totaled more than the cost...