Word: ward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When I helped Anna White I had no idea of getting something back," mused Portia. "But now, at a time when I need her most, she comes to me offering to try to get the facts I need to break Steve Ward's alibi. God has a strange and wonderful way of knowing what He's doing...
...some embarrassing rips. It made many retailers mad when a sudden cut in the retail price of Palm Beach suits (fixed by Fair Trade laws in 45 states) forced merchants to lose profits on the suits in stock (TIME, July 18). Last week, Goodall's President Elmer L. Ward was confident that he could patch everything up. He had a brand-new kind of Palm Beach cloth which, he predicted, would revolutionize men's light-weight suits...
...Ward, a 6 ft., 200-lb. Boston Irishman, learned to keep his eye on the ball while winning New England's golf championship in 1930. Since 1931, when Maine's Sanford Mills and Goodall Worsted Co. first decided to make Palm Beach suits as well as Palm Beach cloth, Ward has been running their suitmaking subsidiary, the Goodall Co. Five years ago he consolidated his position by buying control of the mills and merging them into a new parent company, Goodall-Sanford Inc., with himself as president...
Meat & Drink. Shrewd, hard-bitten Bill Boyle believes in machine politics and the everlasting value of the faithful ward-heeler. He was a precinct captain himself before he could vote, rose through the ranks of the Boss Pendergast machine to acting director of police (TIME, Feb. 21). In 1941, Senator Harry Truman appointed him to the counsel staff of his war investigating committee, later made him his personal secretary. Last year Boyle plotted Truman's whistle-stop campaign, insisted on going after what proved to be the decisive farm and labor vote. An Irish-Catholic politician...
After a year, in which more than $100,000 worth of penicillin was used, the doctors came to a sad conclusion: if you want to ward off a cold, chalk is just about as useful as penicillin - and a lot cheaper. Neither prevents a cold...