Word: wente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Governor, Patterson had to raise money for his state: he went to New York, worked out financing details on a $60 million state bond issue with Lehman Bros., the famed Manhattan international banking house. Because the Lehmans are Jews, Governor Patterson's dealings aroused Alabama's anti-Semites. In June, Patterson spoke to the state legislature, expressed sentiments that seemed heresy to Alabama's rabid segregationists. Said he: "We cannot afford to crawl back into a hole as far as public education is concerned." On a trip to Washington, Patterson met Massachusetts' Senator John Kennedy, whom...
...Rock's cops. "I see no reason for you to be beaten over the head today, or to be jailed," said Faubus. "That should be faced only as a last resort, and when there is much to be gained." Having nonetheless whipped the crowd to a rage, Faubus went back to his office-and the mob started down 14th Street...
...Tallent and Kosseff, the manna-mad citizens of Cabazon soon voted to incorporate their town. The specific purpose of the move was to establish a drive-in draw-poker palace; under California law, only incorporated towns may establish poker parlors. In as Cabazon's mayor went L. D. Tallent-and before long he was also police commissioner, fire commissioner and civil defense commissioner (Kosseff, his usefulness fulfilled, soon sloped back toward Hollywood, later died...
...making himself understood. His battle report from Tarawa was a classic: "Our casualties heavy. Enemy casualties unknown. Situation: we are winning." His view of orders received: "If we can read it, we can do it." When tapped to help establish the Marine Corps' Fiscal Division, he went into isolation for days, emerged with a staff study that impressed everyone. Asked how he did it, he told the story of a sculptor who carved an elephant without ever having seen one: he simply knocked off all the pieces that did not look like an elephant...
...bulldozing squad from Virginia Polytechnic Institute, the little fullback came roaring out of nowhere, slammed the V.P.I. ball carrier so hard that he rocked him over the sideline, off the field, under the bleachers. His name was William Halsey, and they called him "Bull." That was the way he went through life...