Word: bobs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...should become a party of conservatives, would it ever win another election? Dewey's popular vote was only a shade larger than Herbert Hoover's, despite the fact that a whole generation of voters had grown up since 1928. But in the opinion of Ohio's Bob Taft (who was vacationing in Rome), the Republicans had only to hang on. Said Taft: "[The party] should present a constructive program . . . opposing every unnecessary addition to the totalitarian powers of the federal government. The fallacies and dangers of the Administration's economic and control policies will become entirely...
There was little immediate prospect of that. The House's Martin-Halleck-Taber leadership was too firmly entrenched. Liberal G.O.P. Senators would find it hard to agree upon an alternate to Ohio's Bob Taft, himself far more liberal than the House's ruling clique...
...year ago last summer, they worked up a bouncy little tune for Bob Hope to twang to Jane Russell while leading a covered-wagon train in a western called The Paleface. Record companies recorded it, then held back on it, as usual, until about ten to twelve weeks before the movie was due for release. Last September the record companies began to let it spin. By last week, Dinah Shore's record of Buttons and Bows was No. 1 on the hit parade. It was just the songwriters' good fortune that by the time their tune finally came...
They moved to New Haven, where Bob now goes to the Yale School of Fine Arts. A little thing like a two-block walk tired Helen; Bob had to do most of the housekeeping in their two-room apartment, and he always carried her up stairs...
Dale Armstrong of Dartmouth and Bob Sponaugle of Pennsylvania were chosen as ends, and Joe Quinn, Cornell captain, and Stewart Young of Dartmouth fill the guard slots...