Word: wards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twenty-four hours later, the Goodyear balloon containing Pilot Ward T. Van Orman and his assistant, W. W. Morton, descended on the beach near Bar Harbor, Me. (715 miles from Akron). It had floated a greater distance than any of the other 14-thereby winning the National Elimination Balloon Race and the right to represent the U. S. in the Gordon Bennett Trophy (international) race in the autumn. Second and third places went to the Detroit Flying Club entry and the Army No. 3 balloon from Scott Field, Ill., who respectively floated to Skowhegan, Me. (665 miles) and Biddeford...
...debt, bought a large (many say a controlling) interest and last week it was announced that two Morgan partners (Francis D. Bartow, George Whitney) would become Manville directors, that Hiram E. Manville would be replaced as president by the man whom J. P. Morgan & Co. found to rebuild Montgomery Ward & Co., Chicago mail order house. Mr. Manville succeeds his late brother as board chairman...
...receives. The manifold opportunities for the university graduate in one or the other of the branches of the Public Service are usually brushed aside in favor of some private enterprise. They should not be. The responsibilities of government now rest largely upon the stupid, the untrained, the men of ward mentality. Certain members of the present administration at Washington are eloquent testimony to this condition. Many men today graduate with a natural aptitude for the Public Service, only to lose it in a downtown office a few years later. These men in Germany or in England would be public...
Therefore if our young man wants to go into politics and, as President Coolidge once said, has office holding for his hobby, he had better go to the nearest street corner in the week before election day and make the acquaintance of his ward boss and take his orders from him. He will then be a small cog in the machine of his district and state and depending on his ability to deliver the votes and his knowledge of his bailiwick will be promoted...
...second team line-up follows: Robeson Bailey '29, S. G. French '28, Howard Lisker '29, H. W. Sayles '28, W. J. Iselin '29, R. S. Kazanjian '27, C. H. Olmsted '29. The 1930 men who will meet the Blue are M. T. Hill, captain, Arthur Ingraham Jr., E. B. Ward, R. S. Winslow, F. K. Trask Jr., and J. L. Ware. E. M. M. Warburg and John Cross II will go to New Haven as substitutes...