Word: wishart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nebraska Republican Finance Chairman Joseph S. Wishart revealed that Lobbyist Neff had contributed $2,500 to G.O.P. funds in his state. Wishart said he had questioned Neff's motives at the time ("When I saw he had this handful of money, there was penalty flags down all over the field for me"), but had finally accepted the donation. Explained Wishart: "I didn't think he could be a lobbyist. He kind of had a cloak-and-dagger attitude. It seemed to me that the poor devil had $2,500 he was trying to do anything to get somebody...
...Long Island. In the Vanderbilt were such car names, now dim, as Pope-Toledo, Darracq, Simplex and Locomobile, such still familiar ones as Mercedes and Fiat. The driver lists included such U.S. professionals as Barney Oldfield, Ralph de Palma, such millionaire amateurs as William K. Vanderbilt himself and Spencer Wishart, such Europeans as Jenatzy, first man to exceed 60 m.p.h., Lancia, Nazzaro, Victor Hemery and Louis Chevrolet. But the toplofty language of the racing notices enraged many a Long Island citizen from the first: "All persons are warned against using the roads between the hours...
...Richard C. Norris of Schenoctady, N. Y.; James K. Polese of Belmont, Mass.; Michael S. Robertson of Taunton, Mass.; Lauren D. Studebaker of Bellevue, Wash.; Alexander Z. Warren of Concord, N. H.; Richard G. Wharton (Capt.) of Boston, Mass.; Philip M. Williams of Newton, Mass.; David L. Wishart of Portland, Ore.; Robert Piza Weil Jr. of Stamford, Conn...
...will still keep an active eye on the company. Sweatt started off in the family-owned business, when the firm had 50 employees and one product, built it up to 24,000 employees and annual sales of $200 million. Moving into Sweatt's old job is Paul B. Wishart, 55, U.S. Naval Academy graduate who directed the company's postwar expansion into more than 9,000 kinds of automatic controls for everything from gas heaters to guided missiles...