Word: winterers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...graduate of Ole Miss's law school, Winter won all five elections he entered in the past 20 years, served three terms in the state legislature and one as tax commissioner. His excellent record as state treasurer won him the respect of banking and industrial leaders. Moreover, his grass-roots organization is the strongest in the state...
Among the other six candidates, either Barnett or Williams is expected to go up against Winter in an Aug. 29 run-off between the top two vote getters. Governor Paul Johnson, prevented by the state constitution from succeeding himself, finds himself instead in the odd position of campaigning for the lieutenant-governorship, a job he held under Barnett. Among Johnson's five opponents: Byron De La Beckwith, under indictment for the 1963 murder of Civil Rights Leader Medgar Evers...
...just as low. In most cases the schoolrooms to which the students returned bore little resemblance to those they had left. Teaching equipment has been carried off or damaged, walls are hung with soggy, frayed posters and slogans, windows are broken, toilets fouled, and walls are blackened by the winter fires of the Red Guards...
...Teddy Roosevelt. Francis Scott Key played The Star-Spangled Banner on a Knabe; Lyndon Johnson has a Knabe, and Bobby Kennedy a Chickering. Other Aeolian pianos, built at seven plants in the U.S. and Canada, include Mason & Hamlin, Fischer, Pianola, Weber, George Steck, Duo-Art, Cable, Hardman Peck, Winter, Kranich & Bach, Ivers & Pond and Mason & Risch...
Once known as Winter & Co., the firm was founded in a Bronx, N.Y., loft in 1899. In those days, The Bronx alone had 40 piano manufacturers and suppliers. Most of them went under in the Depression. What saved Winter was the company's pre-crash takeover by Sears, Roebuck & Co., which kept the firm in business through the bad days...