Word: wolfed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appear safe. Four Republicans are in perilously close races. In the Eleventh (Indianapolis) District, polls show four-term Eisenhower Republican Charles Brownson, 44, slightly behind Democratic Theater Owner Joseph Barr, 40, who is helped by an unusually strong Marion County Democratic ticket. In the Ninth (Aurora) District, lone-wolf Republican Earl Wilson, 52, running as usual without help from the state G.O.P. organization, needs a good rural turnout to hold his seat against Bartholomew County Sheriff Earl Hogan, 38-In the Fifth (Kokomo) District, archconservative, teetotaling Republican John Beamer, 61, is fighting for his life against vigorous, teetotaling Huntington County...
...votes out of 129,052 cast. But Republicans are having rough sledding in at least three other districts. In the Second (Cedar Rapids-Dubuque) district, veteran Henry O. Talle, ranking Republican on the House Banking and Currency Committee, carried only 51.3% of the district in 1956 against Democrat Leonard Wolf, who has been campaigning ever since. In the Fifth (Des Moines) district, Republican Paul Cunningham won by only 51.1% in 1956, is slightly favored over Democrat Neal Smith, who is hurt by a split in the Polk County party organization...
Acting at the same meeting, the RYDC appointed Ellen R. Wolf '59 acting President until a permanent successor to Miss Lang is elected...
...sugar daddy is a stocky, Venezuela-born Cuban who in light moments proclaims that "sugar is my mistress," and in serious moments insists that "the degree of a people's civilization is related to their sugar consumption-less civilized people use less sugar." The man: Julio Lobo (meaning wolf), 59, who bears the scars of his lifelong love affair with sugar. Entrepreneur Lobo carries a .38 caliber slug imbedded in his skull, put there by a Cuban gangster ostensibly bent on robbery. He has had three heart attacks. Yet he works a 14-hour day, and spends so much...
...benign feudal baron, keeps on the good side of his workers. He provides them with houses, schools and churches, goes into the fields to talk with them, personally accepts petitions and complaints on the porches of his many homes, which adjoin his mills. He can also get tough. Lone Wolf Lobo has long conducted a single-handed battle against government controls and quotas. With the backing of most rival sugarmen, the Cuban government keeps tight control on the industry to curb overproduction and bolster prices. It also cooperates with the sugar workers' unions in crippling growers with restrictions that...