Word: rooney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Maybe rough-&-tough Charles Rooney should have known this. When Rooney, a red-faced, burly Irishman, returned from the Army to his Topeka law practice last spring, he thought he heard a call to arms. Harry Woodring was running for the Democratic nomination for Governor and was making a vigorous attack on Kansas' much-flouted dry law (TIME, Sept. 9). Rooney put up some campaign money ("If my wife knew how much, she'd file lunacy proceedings"), tapped his friends for more, and became Woodring's primary campaign manager...
...after Woodring won the nomination, Rooney found himself shoved into the kitchen while Woodring staged a one-man show in the parlor. Woodring scarcely mentioned the slate of World War II veterans Rooney had carefully put together; he ignored Rooney's advice, and overlooked him when state and county chairmen were picked. But what really burned up Rooney, who had contributed "rather handsomely," was Woodring's ungrateful statement that he had had no expenses in the campaign. That...
...members of the committee are: Richard G. Axt '46, Carter S. Bacon '46, Thomas D. Connolly '45, Francis Cunningham, Jr. '44, Robert L. Hale '46, David D. Harrower '45, Jerome Preston '44, and Edwin R. Rooney...
...Ensign David Flohr of Banana River, Fla., passed along a current idiom. In a letter to LIFE, praising a picture of Rita Hayworth in a sheer nightgown, he cried: "She's really Mello-Rooney, Viddle...
...second assistant managers who were competing for the position of Varsity manager were Willard T. Daetsh '46, Dwight K. Nishimura '49, Gary Rapmund '49, Edwin R. Rooney '46, and George C. Warren '46, in addition to the successful Judkins...