Word: welching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Victor Meyers' sudden resolution horrified a Seattle Times reporter named Doug Welch. Reason: the Times was running Vic for mayor to express its jaundiced opinion of the serious candidates, and it was Welch's chore to keep him funny. Welch gave Vic a card to hand to toastmasters. The card read...
...bandleader at this point in his career and had entered into the gag campaign amicably enough. But the heady fumes of politics seeped up his nose and changed him for good. After his defeat, he looked back on the mayoralty campaign morosely, convinced that he might have won if Welch had let him talk. So he filed for Lieutenant Governor of the state; a Democrat, he was not a bit surprised when he was elected in the Roosevelt landslide...
Nobody took him seriously-the ghost of Welch's rented goat trailed through the years. But the memory did him no harm. Washington, a state which likes some fun with its politics, re-elected him with showy majorities...
...selection as successor to venerable Dr. Warfield Theobald Longcope, 68, was a surprise. It should not have been. Even though such prestige-heavy professorships usually go to more experienced men, Johns Hopkins acquired its early fame through the work of four comparative youngsters, the original "Big Four": William Henry Welch (who began at 43), William Stewart Halsted (41), Howard Atwood Kelly (35), and Sir William Osier* (44). Dr. Harvey is young enough to carry on the tradition. He is also able enough to carry on the good work...
...Members of the Air Coordinating Committee: Assistant Secretary of State William L. Clayton, Assistant Secretary of War for Air Robert Lovett, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air John Sullivan, Assistant Secretary of Commerce William Burden, Chairman of the CAB L. Welch Pogue...