Word: luckey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...George P. Luckey, 62, will step down as president and board chairman of Hamilton Watch Co. in mid-April. Luckey, a physicist by training, joined Hamilton in 1927, was vice president in charge of manufacturing when the directors tabbed him as president in 1952. Likely choice to succeed him: Executive Vice President Ar thur B. Sinkler...
...rain is always falling into the lives of Democrats. Last month the party's high command in Washington decided to raise an umbrella over the longtime split between the party's left wing, led by James Roosevelt, and its right wing, led by wealthy Rancher E. George Luckey. Beneath the umbrella, veteran Congressman Harry Sheppard put together a 76-member slate of "regular" delegates to the national convention, fusing the left and the right. They were held together by Sheppard's firm promise that Harry Truman would stay in California's June 3 primary, even...
...California race, where he would have faced Coonskin Estes again. The orphaned Truman delegation began looking for another candidate. Illinois' Governor Adlai Stevenson seemed a good possibility, but he wouldn't step in. Former Representative Helen Gahagan Douglas offered to run as a favorite daughter, but Luckey's conservative element wouldn't accept her-too leftwing. The motley 76 finally agreed that they couldn't agree on any candidate. Sadly, they wandered off in different directions, looking for candidates. A "Democrats-for-Eisenhower" delegation was being discussed...