Word: dickinson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With these announcements the Teamster surge ended. In Washington 83-year-old District Court Judge F. Dickinson Letts had been mulling over the frustrations of the three-member board of monitors he appointed in January to supervise a Teamster cleanup. Judge Letts found that the Teamsters had been treating the board's "orders of recommendation" purely as "recommendations," had done nothing substantial to clean up. Henceforth, he ruled, the Teamsters would take "orders" from the monitors. One immediate effect of his ruling is to postpone the convention Hoffa had scheduled for March to have himself re-elected president...
...West Point appointment for the infant son of Air Corps Captain Colin P. Kelly, Jr., who was shot down early in the war over the Philippines after a bombing attack on a Japanese warship. Said the White House last week: Colin P. Kelly III, 18, a student at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., has not yet decided whether he will take an appointment, although President Eisenhower is ready to follow the boy's wishes...
...Greg's best known books. And Coombs, a dour and melancholy man who got his final promotion on the strength of a book he never managed to finish, said bluntly that it was just a sentimental gesture on the part of two overly earnest young men. After a silence, Dickinson, who had once been a student of Greg, spoke. He said quite wistfully that he wished he had been able to emulate Greg. Then with some acidity he added that there could be no question of denying Greg the honor. No one else asked to speak. Professor Briggs, after surveying...
Meanwhile, the Democrats, with too many candidates, were having their own problems. Jim Farley and state commerce commissioner Edward Dickinson were eliminated early. Carmine DeSapio, boss of Tammany Hall, supported New York City District Attorney Frank Hogan, while Harriman and Mayor Wagner held out for a "more liberal" man, either former Air Force Secretary Thomas Finletter or former AEC Commissioner Thomas Murray. In the ensuing power struggle, DeSapio won, with the aid of Buffalo Democratic leader Peter Crotty; Crotty was promptly rewarded with the nomination for Attorney General...
...Smokers who cannot break the habit may owe it all to mother, according to Harvard Psychologists Charles McArthur. Ellen Waldron and John Dickinson. They found that the quitting ability of 250 subjects (Harvard graduates, classes of '38 to '42) was directly proportional to the number of months they spent as infants at their mothers' breasts. Those weaned at eight months were easily able to stop smoking; those at six months still had a chance. But the most confirmed (and heaviest) smokers had taken to the bottle at four months, say the psychologists, too early to satisfy oral...