Word: ward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both Louis A. Toepfer, Director of Admissions at the Law School, and Lewis B. Ward, Director of Admissions at the Business School, said they believe increasing funds for scholarships and loans will provide financial backing for students who ordinarily would have depended on GI benefits...
This Is War. Kennelly reacted to the county committee's endorsement of Daley last week by announcing that he would run in the primary as an independent and by declaring war on the party bosses. In rapid order, Kennelly: 1) demanded the resignations of five ward committeemen with city jobs who had voted against him at the county meeting, 2) threatened to cut off the lucrative insurance and bonding business that the city does with some machine Democrats, 3) promised to fire all city employees (not covered by civil service) who work against him in the election, 4) stopped...
...their best friends. Driven largely by personal malice and domestic intrigues, they gravely damaged any hope of a united Europe, flung back the proffered hand of friendship from their ancient foe, and jeopardized their own safety. Their decision-if it stood-left France in the position of a ward, for other nations to protect and to defend. And even if the Assembly reversed itself this week in response to the world's shocked reaction, the memory of its first performance would remain...
Hatrack & the Countess. When Henry Mencken fought the Watch & Ward Society and was arrested in Boston for selling the issue of his American Mercury that contained the story of a casual prostitute called Hatrack (she took her customers to cemeteries*), Mencken retained Hays. When the Countess Cathcart was denied entry to the U.S. because she had had an affair with the Earl of Craven (the Earl was admitted without a fuss), Hays was at her side. In his autobiography, City Lawyer, Hays recalls that when the Countess was brought before a deportation board of inquiry, she asked: "But haven...
...example, Louis E. Wolfson, who is now waging a proxy war to take over the $999 million Montgomery Ward Co., bought control of Washington's Capital Transit Co. five years ago for $2,100,000. Since then Wolfson has paid out $5,911,200 in dividends from cash in the till. As a result, the stock has soared, bringing Wolfson and his associates a whopping $4,378,320 profit on the stock alone...