Word: chester
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...endorsed incumbent Chester A. Higley thinks there would be a change in Council personnel if PR is thrown out. "I don't think there would be as much say for minority groups; things would be very much one-sided. Primaries make for machine politics. We'd have the same moss as they have in Boston." Higley is a good bet for mayor if the CCA maintains its Council majority--and it should...
Although on the other side of the Atkinson issue, Chester A. Higley and W. Donnison Swan are two councillors worthy of re-election. Swan's financial ability alone, which saves the Council from often fantastic ventures and founds its policies on practicality makes his re-election necessary. Higley's conscientious study of everything at Council meetings, and bis high personal integrity are sound reasons for backing Higley...
Signed by such prominent committeemen as Chester I. Barnard, onetime president of New Jersey Bell Telephone Co., Eugene E. Barnett, general secretary of the Y.M.C.A. National Council, and Congressman Walter H. Judd of Minnesota, the report found "no reason to believe that any members of the [council] staff are dishonest, disloyal, subversive, proCommunist, or other than conscientious and sincere Christians." But at the same time the committee decided that the council had been getting itself (and Congregationalism) out on the limbs of politics more often than was necessary or wise...
Omnibus (Sun. 5 p.m., CBS). Ernest Hemingway's The Battler with Chester Morris...
Died. Maud Murray Dale, 70, Manhattan patroness of modern French art; of a heart attack; in Southampton, N.Y. Grand-mannered daughter of a onetime New York Herald art critic, she divorced an indigent artist to marry Wall Street Utilities Financier Chester Dale. During a 1923 tour of Europe, she switched Dale's hobby from chasing fire engines (he was an honorary New York City fire chief) to buying paintings. In the next 15 years the Dales spent more than $6,000,000 picking up some 700 paintings (e.g., Renoir's Girl With a Watering Can, Degas' Four...