Word: western
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this, Bolles, Strong and Co. are to be congratulated. They stand an excellent chance of defeating Yale over the four-mile course at New London and thus finish the year undefeated. But even if they do this, they will not have met the toughest competition available: the fine western crews which will make their only east-coast appearance at Poughkeepsie the day after the Yale regatta...
...Historian Arnold Toynbee, Philosophers John Dewey and Bertrand Russell; Psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung, Artist Pablo Picasso, Writers Bernard Shaw, T. S. Eliot, Andre Gide, Jean-Paul Scrtre and William Faulkner; Theologians Jacques Maritain, Karl Barth, Martin Buber, Albert Schweitzer and Reinhold Niebuhr; and, as a "moral symbol of the Western democratic creed, whom the whole world recognizes," Eleanor Roosevelt...
...went to work for his father, now president of the Kansas City Southern, as assistant to the general manager. From there on, the tracks were cleared. Deramus Sr. worked with a stockholders' group that was dissatisfied with the management of Chicago Great Western, succeeded in making Coalman Grant Stauffer president last fall. Stauffer made young Bill Deramus his assistant in the Great Western, whose 1,500 miles of track tap six Midwestern states. Young Bill trimmed costs so well that when Stauffer died last March, he was the logical man for the presidency. Now with freight carload-ings...
...start on his ambition to be a railroad engineer. His father was a division superintendent of the Kansas City Southern Railway Co., and frequently took Bill on rides. Bill never became an engineer, but last week he did even better. At 33, he became president of the Chicago Great Western Railway Co.-the youngest president of any Class I road...
...disaster for son Abraham Livingston Gump, if no great loss to the art world, when Gump's stock was burned out in the 1906 earthquake. "A.L." decided that Western art wasn't everything: he sent buyers to Japan and China to collect Oriental art. Gump's gradually built up one of the finest collections of rugs, porcelains, silks, bronzes and jades that Western eyes had ever seen, and A.L., who was all but blind, learned to judge it all expertly by touch...