Word: williams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Coffey's youngest son, William, was also killed in an Air Force bomber crash in the U.S. A third son, John, a World War II navigator with 35 missions, is now helping his mother campaign...
...Cost What It Will." Organized labor was out to punish him for being the author of the Taft-Hartley Act and leader of the forces that blocked its repeal. "Cost what it will," the A.F.L.'s William Green had vowed, "we are going to bring about the defeat of the outstandingly reprehensible Senator Taft." A.F.L. and C.I.O. leaders were prepared to spend millions (collected in $1 and $2 rank & file assessments) to defeat him. He had angered...
...Against. Against the formidable Taft, who had had his hand in virtually every important piece of domestic legislation acted on by the 80th and 81st Congresses, none of these possible Democratic candidates appeared to loom very large. But the opposition recalled how Taft had barely squeaked through against William Pickrel, a comparatively unknown Dayton lawyer, in 1944. Pickrel had faithfully echoed the policies of F.D.R. Since then Taft had made enemies by his astringent honesty, had probably lost some friends by doggedly following his conscience. The anti-Taft forces counted on a majority of Ohioans voting not for somebody...
Last Laugh. In Philadelphia, while giving Constable William L. Bailey a ticket for illegal parking, Patrolman James J. Gallo dropped a piece of paper on the ground, later received a ticket from Bailey for littering the streets...
Battle Stations. In St. Louis, during an argument in Sportsman's Park, Baseball Fan Joseph Cherry took off his glasses, removed his false teeth, then punched Usher William F. Goza in the nose...