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...Dewey." Said Pennsylvania's G. Mason Owlett: "Regular Republicans are sore about those Western speeches Tom Dewey has made, and about his FEPC bill and things like that. I know they get pretty annoyed at some of Dewey's tactics." Said Michigan's Congressman Roy Woodruff: "Arthur Vandenberg is the kind of man the nation needs." Despite these differences, there was little doubt that a big percentage of the committeemen thought Tom Dewey was their boy.* No committeeman, Tom Dewey was not at the dinner; he was returning from a four weeks' vacation at Sea Island...
...grandly as he had labored. He went to live in England, added to his stable of horses till he had 125 (now down to nine), bought a large diesel yacht, entered a horse in England's Grand National. The horse fell, but V.E. and his wife, Dorothy Elizabeth Woodruff, whom he had met at Cornell, liked the country. They leased Rockingham Castle, built in Norman times, spent a small fortune modernizing it, soon became known for their lavish parties. For one party, V.E. reportedly imported 300 guests from the U.S., paying their fares both ways. For such didos...
...clue to Goodpasture's revolutionary discovery came from research on a common barnyard disease, fowlpox, which farmers know as "sore head." With an associate, Dr. Alice Miles Woodruff, he hit on the idea of cultivating fowlpox virus in a fertile egg. It was cheaper than the rats, guinea pigs and monkeys which scientists had used previously; it was a sterile medium enclosed in a naturally sterile container. After purchasing an incubator from a mail-order house and a few dozen fertile eggs from a Nashville hatchery, Dr. Goodpasture set to work...
...elected president of the Coca-Cola Co., after ten years as an RFC lawyer, only four years with Coca-Cola. Bill Hobbs left RFC's Atlanta office to reorganize Coca-Cola's musty legal department, caught the eye of Coca-Cola's Robert Winship Woodruff. From then on, Bill Hobbs fizzed up to a vice-presidency, moved to New York to head the Coca-Cola Export Co. As president, Bill Hobbs will be second only to Bob Woodruff, who was acting president, and will continue as board chairman...
James Gordon Woodruff...