Word: williams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Broke: the Law. In Baton Rouge, La., acting on a request from New Orleans authorities, police arrested William Brady, but let him go when New Orleans probation officials said they had no funds to use to come after...
...William Egan, 44, Governor. Alaska-born and a Valdez grocer, Bill Egan served in both houses of the territorial legislature, once offered to solve Alaska's woman shortage by proposing a $50-a-year tax on unmarried females. He is an airplane pilot, has worked as a cannery laborer and a truck driver, made his highest marks as president, chief parliamentarian and major cohesive agent of the 75-day Territorial Constitutional Convention in 1955-56, won the powerful governorship, with its broad powers of appointment, from Territorial Senator John Butrovich by nearly 10,000 votes...
Checking last spring on the 1960 presidential preferences of Republican voters, the Gallup poll found Vice President Richard Nixon the far-and-away leader, with 64% against only 9% for the runner-up, California's Senator William Knowland. Checking again last week, in the wake of the 1958 elections, the pollsters found a far more imposing Nixon roadblock in New York's Governor-elect Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller. The new listing...
...quit school to find a job. But with his blacksmith father's encouragement, he stuck it out to become a priest-and those early bad grades were soon forgotten. He was a bishop at 43, and an archbishop at 49, when he succeeded Boston's autocratic old William Cardinal O'Connell...
...Cleveland meeting was prompted by the proposed merger of the New York Central and Pennsylvania Railroads, which are going ahead with their studies, already have in hand a report on the operational aspects of a merger. It was Delaware & Hudson President William White and fellow railroaders who called executives of the seven roads together at Cleveland to discuss what steps to take if the Central-Pennsy merger goes through. The most obvious: meet merger with merger...