Word: warded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...managed coal mines in Tennessee, became president of Tennessee Products & Chemical Corp., which merged with Wolfson's Merritt-Chapman & Scott. His predecessor, E. W. Endter. who got the job after resigning the $50,000-a-year presidency of the California Oil Co. to help Wolfson battle for Montgomery Ward, quit Devoe & Raynolds to return to the oil business...
...years, from his goulash days as a ward heeler in Cleveland's working-class districts to the governor's mansion in Columbus, Lausche (rhymes with how she) has successfully violated the ground rules and spectacularly bucked bosses, bigots and big shots. Nearly every time that he has run for office Ohio's tabulating machines have clanked out record-breaking jackpots...
...second in his class. He was also second, in a group of 160 applicants, when he passed his bar examinations with a mark of 91.7. In 1920 he joined Locher, Green & Woods, the law firm where he had clerked. Almost immediately he got into politics, as a leader in Ward 23, Cleveland's strongest Democratic district. He had been widely known in the neighborhood from his lamplighting days, and he had a pleasing platform personality. In 1922 the party put him up for the state assembly. In 1924 he ran for the state senate. He lost both races (only...
After wayward young (20) Mail-Order Heir Montgomery Ward Thorne mysteriously died in a shabby Chicago apartment (TIME, July 26, 1954) amid the sordid evidence of a sex-and-drug orgy, his will, drawn up only nine days before his death, soon sparked a bitter court battle. It left only a quarter of his $1,800,000 estate to his mother and an aunt, three-quarters to his pretty fiancee, Maureen Ragen, and her mother. Last week a Chicago court threw out the will on the ground that fear-ridden Thorne was not legally competent when he made...
Name-Dropper. In Milwaukee, forced by the election commission to run for alderman under his full name. Roderick Peter Lanser started proceedings to have his name legally changed to Rod, explained in circuit court that Roderick sounded too fancy, wealthy and effeminate for the voters in his ward...