Word: wesley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Propped up by a traction device, the boss of Borg-Warner Corp.'s Norge Division sat in bed at Chicago's Wesley Memorial Hospital last week, a telephone at his side and papers spread out in front of him. All morning 54-year-old Judson S. Sayre took calls, received visitors and dictated letters at a rapid clip. At noon, with his neck in a brace, he left the hospital for his office, returned later in the afternoon to finish up his 15-hour workday...
...campaign. Hall loudly proclaimed his admiration for President Eisenhower, but he hammered hard at the deal which forced Eisenhower's Republican National Chairman Wesley Roberts, a protege of Senator Carlson, to resign under fire (TIME, March 30, 1953 et seq.) in a scandal involving the sale of a tuberculosis hospital...
Fifteen months ago, a committee of the Kansas legislature wrote a report charging that Charles Wesley Roberts, chairman of the Republican National Committee, had violated the "spirit" of Kansas' lobbying laws in 1951 (TIME, April 6, 1953). The committee frowned because Roberts, a professional pressagent, took an $11,000 fee in the sale of a hospital to the state, when he was not registered as a lobbyist. Although Roberts held no political job at the time he took the fee, the committee's report forced him to hurry to Dwight Eisenhower and hand in his resignation as Republican...
...Wesley Roseman, 11, twisted by a congenital deformity of the spine, at first played a solitary game of croquet. He complained that no one would play with him. Soon he learned the game's rules, found some partners, smilingly started to talk about what he wants to be when he grows up (astronomer or archaeologist...
...John Wesley. 4. Roger Williams...