Word: ward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...election morning this week, the rising orange sun flashed on the Boston steeples and rooftops and glanced through the mist on the old streets as John Fitzgerald Kennedy and his expecting wife drove to the stately West End (Congregational) Church in the Sixth Ward to vote...
...first saw the light of political dawn two generations ago in that very city. It was there, in the turn-of-the-century days of boisterous hurrahs and beer-barrel politics, that his two shanty Irish grandfathers ruled: Saloonkeeper Pat Kennedy, the leader of East Boston's First Ward, and a state representative and state senator to boot; John Francis ("Honey Fitz'') Fitzgerald, twice the mayor of Boston and a U.S. Congressman, the only man in town who could sing Sweet Adeline sober and get away with it. (It was a proud Honey Fitz...
Montgomery Ward then began an expansion program that used up Avery's hoard. Last August, Avery could draw a measure of quiet satisfaction from the fact that Ward's new free-spending management, faced with six-month earnings of $5,000,000 v. $10 million the first half of 1959, had to halve Ward's quarterly dividend. Last week, just a few days be- fore his 87th birthday, Sewell Avery died of a cerebral hemorrhage...
...Died. Ward Bond, 57, veteran movie actor (150 films) who hit the high road as the burly boss of TV's Wagon Train; of a heart attack; in Dallas...
Died. Sewell Lee Avery, 86, crusty, rapid-firing (60 top executives in 24 years) boss of Montgomery Ward & Co.; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in his lakeshore Chicago apartment (see BUSINESS...