Word: ward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Frank Stranahan, the Western Amateur golf title, over Harvie Ward (who defeated Stranahan in the finals of the 1952 British Amateur title); 3 and 2; in Chicago...
Last week the grand jury indicted 32 from Kanawha County for vote frauds, 18 Democrats and 14 Republicans. They ranged from ward heelers to the Republican mayor of Dunbar (pop. 8,032), who was charged with fraudulently adding to the votes cast for Charleston's Republican Mayor John T. Copenhaver in his unsuccessful campaign for the Republican gubernatorial nomination. Despite its victory, the Gazette thinks the battle not yet over. It plans to campaign to change the state laws so the vote frauds can't be repeated...
Edward Schroeder '53, president of the Harvard Young Republican Club, said that the group would try to get the majority of the state republican slate as speakers. The group, he said, plans to do much work on the precinct and ward level, including ringing doorballs...
...here until a few weeks before. Farouk's tastes sometimes seemed curiously childish, like those of a schoolboy who has never grown up beyond the French postcard stage. Above all, the palace gave the impression that someone had feverishly and indiscriminately crammed possessions into the vast rooms, to ward off loneliness, or perhaps despair...
...executives have already learned, to their great sorrow, there is no room left at the top of Montgomery Ward & Co. for anyone except highhanded Chairman Sewell Avery, 78. Last week two more Ward vice presidents resigned. They were Roy L. Gebert, top boss of Ward's 605 retail stores, and Herbert Riegelman, the third chief of the Manhattan office to leave since 1950. Said Gebert, a 25-year veteran whom Avery promoted only last September: "Everybody has differences with Mr. Avery . . . No man could continue on the job and keep his self-respect...