Word: chester
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deranged lawyer in the Washington railroad terminal and lay disabled for 80 days. During that time he performed only one official act, signing an extradition paper. The Cabinet tried to cope with such problems as post-office fraud scandals and sagging foreign relations, considered urging Vice President Chester Alan Arthur to take over the functions and authority of the President during his disability, but feared the legal implications. The Government drifted until Garfield died...
...Something of Value) deserts Mau-Mau country for magnolia land. He has written a boozy-bucolic picture postcard reminiscence of his North Carolina boyhood. In Author Ruark's memory-misted eyes the Old Man (Ned Hall) is a cross between Thoreau and Natty Bumppo, and the Boy (Robert Chester Ruark Jr.) a blend of Huck Finn and Hemingway's Nick Adams. Less affected readers may feel that they are merely reading the diary of a bad boy scout spending an endless hunting-and-fishing trip with a garrulous, overage camp counselor...
...Juilliard School of Music, they developed a passion for Renaissance music, decided it ought to be played as it was originally in the homes of the rich. Founders Gamson and Oxenburg achieved their place in the sun through awnings. "Mother," Gamson explains, "is in awnings-the Port Chester [N.Y.] Shade & Awning Co.-and since they are very expensive awnings only people with money buy them. Mother's list of customers was helpful in raising money...
...break in survey courses brought about by Perry's Emerson course was only temporary. Other survey-type courses in American literature were being added to the English Department. In 1914, "Puritanism in English and American Literature." Chester N. Greenough, the third "founder" of United States literature study here, taught that...
...hard rap on him since he served three years in Sing Sing for extortion back in 1937-40. Last week the law pushed over Johnny Dio's well-stocked applecart. In Manhattan, a General Sessions Court judge sentenced Dio and two of his henchmen, Max Chester and Samuel Goldstein, to two years' imprisonment and a $1,000 fine apiece. Their offense: conspiracy and bribery in taking $10,000, plus a promise of $20,000 more, from the proprietors of two electroplating firms in 1955 and 1956 as the price of a worthless guarantee to stop the "labor trouble...