Word: wendelle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The electorate, however, was not looking for an egghead ... At work in its mind was what Barrett Wendell of Harvard described as "the awful sanity of the average man" . . .
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, in a famous opinion of 1892, made this important point. The case concerned a New Bedford, Mass, policeman, fired from his job by the mayor because he solicited political funds, an activity banned by a local rule. The policeman claimed that he had been denied his...
Political Career: One day in 1940, Summerfield went to a Republican rally to hear Candidate Wendell Willkie. Convinced that the hostility of the audience was "a disgrace to the town," he got together with nine other Flint businessmen to organize a Republican campaign committee which gave Willkie a surprisingly large...
National Politics: In 1940, at 33, he was keynoter of the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, then became Wendell Willkie's floor manager. After he came out of the Navy in 1945, he spent the next 30 months seeking the Republican nomination for President. To balance his Navy-won...
WENDELL BYRD, 40, Church of God; killed on Oct. 27, 1951, by an anti-personnel mine.