Word: wilkinson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eleven-year-old Richard Miller of Pittsburgh ran away from home to see some ball games, turned up in Manhattan prepared to watch the Dodgers; ready for any emergency, he carried a bat, two baseballs, two catcher's mitts, two fielder's gloves. Billy Sykes and Harriet Wilkinson, both ten and barefoot, were taken into custody 60 miles from their Los Angeles homes by a deputy sheriff, who thus foiled their third attempted elopement...
...year Republican voting trend continued. After 16 years as Mayor of Baltimore, ruddy, cherubic Howard Wilkinson Jackson, 65, last week found himself out of a job. Democrat Jackson, who had kept a profitable insurance business on the side, was soundly trounced (20,000 votes) by Republican Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin, 42, fireman's son, lawyer, spellbinder. All other Democrats on the ticket were elected, but Republicans had won the best flitch of political bacon. Democrats, who have lost the mayoralty only twice before since 1900, blamed the defeat on 1) the accumulated enmities which pile up on any longtime officeholder...
...Francis Alfano Hugh Calkins Bradbury Rufus Clark Michael Joseph De Leo Lawrence Creshkoff William Francis Di Pesa Worth Bagley Daniels, Jr. Peter Garland Michael David Fansler Nicholas Chester Gilles Frederick Wellman Flickinger Edward Perry Harding Wallace Joseph Flynn Dean McDonald Hennessy Robert Crittenden Green Colin Franklin Newell Irving Allen Wilkinson Greer Charles Mellish Kidner Harlan Philip Hanson James Edmund McNulty, Jr. Robert Mayes Hart Richard Watson Mechem Stephen Bradshaw Ives, Jr. Sedgwick Minot, Jr. Russell Scot Leavitt Maurice Machado Osborne, Jr. Paul Latshaw Miller Francis Parkman, Jr. Frank Hoyt Powell Paul Franklin Perkins, Jr. Joseph Loomis Ray, Jr. Albert Clinton...
...outburst was occasioned by the refusal of Wilbraham Academy, oldest Methodist school in America, to admit the fully qualified son of one of its own Negro alumni.* The alumnus is Robert Shaw Wilkinson Jr., a Manhattan surgeon. He and his brother both graduated from Wilbraham with highest honors-the first pair of brothers to achieve this distinction in the history of the school...
...Said Dr. Wilkinson: "If you could have seen the tragic expression which came over the face of my splendid young son last evening when he was apprised of Wilbraham's decision, you would fully realize the serious implications and results of the pseudodemocracy existing in America today...