Word: ward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...REVOLUTION (2 VoLS.,989 pp.) - ChrisTopher Ward - Macmillan...
Chicago's city council recently passed a new record budget of $376 million, including pay raises for political jobholders, increased auto allowances for favored ward heelers, and a whopping $4,800,000 for the city's Electricity Bureau. Young (34) Democratic Alderman Robert Merriam, who with 13 Republican colleagues had vainly fought for economies, decided to investigate the bureau, followed a seven-man electrical crew on its rounds around erratically lit Chicago. His report, published last week...
...College of the University of Chicago, Dean F. Champion Ward trotted out statistics to prove that Robert Maynard Hutchins' ten-year-old "Great Books" curriculum is a success. Students who have set their own pace through a Hutchins-type education, said Dean Ward, excel in almost every field. In nationwide graduate-record exams, 99% of the Chicago scholars placed in the upper third of the group. In the biological sciences, arts, vocabulary and social studies, 98% got better-than-median grades. Some 86% were above the median in physical sciences, literature, general mathematics and effective expression...
CARRIES EVERY WARD IN CITY!-BY-BYE COOK...
...soggiest spots in the New Deal and Fair Deal Administrations was the fiscal area, where both Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman were prone to appoint professor-type economic theorists and ward-type politicians. Last week there were clear and specific indications of a solid change in attitude under the new Administration. They came as Dwight Eisenhower's New York headquarters announced the appointment of three men as top assistants to Secretary of the Treasury George M. Humphrey. Flanking the new Secretary, who has demonstrated his own ability in the field of fiscal policy, will be three topflight working economists...