Word: ward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What made Wisconsin particularly interested in this meeting was the identity of the Benson-La Follette host. For the farmhouse belonged to none other than Charles Allen Ward, millionaire Minneapolis printer, longtime friend and backer of Minnesota's late Farmer-Labor Boss Floyd B. Olson. This fact promptly set tongues wagging as to whether the National Progressives have not acquired that indispensable aid to a fledgling enterprise, theatrical or political-a well-heeled, generous angel...
Quick to deny that report, for the present at least, were La Follette advisers and big, bluff Mr. Ward himself. Mr. Ward got his business start in Leavenworth where, serving a term for narcotic law violations, he fell in with President Herbert Huse Bigelow of Minneapolis' rich Brown & Bigelow (advertising specialties), who was serving a term for income tax evasion. When Mr. Ward was released, Mr. Bigelow, who thought him "good clay worthy of molding," gave him a letter to Brown & Bigelow that got him a job shoveling manure on one of the company farms. By the time...
...publicity, editors of Radcliffe's fledgling publication "Etc." late last night announced that their current issue has been banned by the Watch and Ward Society. "We're just too thrilled for words" a spokeswoman said...
...Only 47% of them attend church regularly, although 76% are church members. Of Roman Catholic women, 85% are regular churchgoers. Of Protestant women, 54% actually go to church-a percentage which, even allowing for U. S. Protestant men who do not attend church, is somewhat higher than Statistician Roger Ward Babson's estimate of 30% for Protestant attendance (men & women). U. S. female churchgoing, high in the East and South, drops in the Midwest, sinks to 26% on the Pacific Coast. According to the survey, U. S. women believe in God (91%). Though most do not attend church...
Those holding forth for the Crimson group were Robin Scully '40, Victor C. Vaughn '40, Paul W. Cherington '40, Secretary of the Council, and Ward MacL. Hussey...