Word: ward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Newman, wife of the Associate Director of the Psychological Laboratories, is presently attempting to become the first female state representative in the history of her Ward. Running on the Republican ticket, she's conceded a good chance to achieve her goal according to local experts...
...confusion of Lodge with Herter regrettably exists in Mr. Upton's mind, not in ours. Lodge indeed performed the introduction. 1200 residents of South Boston's Ward 6 and several score members of the working press managed to see what Mr. Upton apparently missed: that it was Herter ( a tall, spare man who doesn't look a bit like Lodge) who remained silent throughout the proceedings. As for the intentional slanting, it would be a difficult process at best. The CRIMSON is editorially oppose to Nixon, while it is supporting Lodge and Herter...
...those four months Hannegan picked James Finnegan, a political hack, as his successor in St. Louis. He also picked his successor as commissioner of Internal Revenue, Joe Nunan, a Tammany character who had been collector in Brooklyn. To succeed himself in Brooklyn, Nunan picked Joseph P. Marcelle, a ward boss...
...scraping the bottom of the labor barrel (unemployment was at a new postwar low of 1,438,000, only 2% of the work force), automakers were able to add second shifts and keep output up. Ward's Automotive Reports predicted that October production would total 623,000 cars and trucks, best monthly record in a year and a half. Industry was still expanding fast. Construction outlays totaled $9 billion in the third quarter, the highest quarterly level in history...
...riding, hard-living members of the broken-bone-and-bandage set, but soon falls into a conventional movie mold. A Texas cowhand (Arthur Kennedy) becomes a champion rider with the help of a has-been rodeo ace (Robert Mitchum). But Kennedy has a beautiful red-haired wife (Susan Hay-ward). So just as much action begins to develop outside the rodeo arena as inside when the two men tangle over the lady. The gustiest characterization in The Lusty Men is provided by Arthur Hunnicutt as a punchy ex-broncobuster with a busted...