Word: bruces
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...defense committee of the Board of Electives is still in need of volunteer registrars, clerks, and interpreters. Those who wish to serve are asked to report to Mrs. Bruce Hopper in Widener...
POLITICAL SELF-PORTRAIT-John Wheelwright-Bruce Humphries...
Redhaired, blue-eyed Bruce Barton, 54-year-old advertising tycoon, made millions selling Americans on reading (Dr. Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf); on clean collars (Cluett-Peabody collar ads); on shaving (Gillette); on working (Alexander Hamilton Institute); on Jesus and the Bible (The Man Nobody Knows, The Book Nobody Knows). Barton, a born preacher and sloganeer, a superb luncheon-club speaker, son of a Tennessee clergyman, implemented his creed of service by fighting his way into Congress in 1938 as an amateur from Manhattan's only Republican district-the Silk-Stocking Seventeenth, compounded of Park Avenue and nearby...
Next day, in accord with the bosses' announcement, Bruce Barton was nominated for the Senate. The demonstration for him from the aggrieved pros was pathetically feeble, but Tom Dewey, in an atmosphere of sportsmanship, revived the convention into fighting mood with a cutlass-sharp, partisan speech...
...carried New York State -as it must to win the Presidential election-thanks would be due to Wendell Willkie, Kenneth Simpson, Bruce Barton, amateurs...