Word: william
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plain fact was that big, bluff William O'Dwyer had been a pretty good mayor, all things considered. Last week in an election that brought out 93% of New York City's registered voters, he was sent back to the City Hall...
Fleet Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey, 67, had a cataract removed from his left eye at Johns Hopkins Hospital. But a similar operation on his other eye, onetime Fullback Halsey decided, would have to wait until after the Army-Navy game...
Under its first president, William Rainey Harper, the school that John D. Rockefeller had founded in 1891 with a $600,000 gift (and which John D. had originally thought of as just a good Baptist college) became a first-rank university almost at birth. As its grey, Gothic-style buildings sprang up on Chicago's dreary South Side, notable minds had nocked to it: Philosopher John Dewey, Economist Thorstein Veblen, Archeologist James Henry Breasted. It was a place of exciting research, fired by the spirit of scientific inquiry and by the yeasty pragmatism of John Dewey. "The result...
...Training tables, and Athletic Association sponsored service for all varsity athletes, will be suspended immediately after the Yale game, William J. Binghani '16, director of the Athletic Association, announced yesterday...
Miss Ray Lev, pianist and former American Labor Party candidate for the New York City Council, and William Patterson, executive secretary of the Civil Rights Congress, which sponsored the Robeson concert, will also speak. Miss Lev, who was one of the performers at the Peekskill concert, and Patterson both saw the riot and will give eyewitness accounts...