Word: emmet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...informal, with Tech the only boat taking life seriously. As far as the other two crews went, it was little more than old home week, for the Union Boat Club's shell was filled with recent Crimson alumnae, including such prominent oars as Frank Strong, Don Felt, and Dick Emmet...
...jayvee to MIT and the College varsity, although the boat has only been together for a week. Lane Burton, stroke, was on its '46 crew; Frank Strong, at six, captained the varsity in '43. Don Felt, number four man, rowed on the crew in '48 and '49; Dick Emmet, number three, held a position on the varsity in '47 and '48. The balance of the crew, Bob Taggart at five, Nat Ober at seven, and bowman Hargo Hansen, were jayvees in '48 or '49. (Hansen in better known as Assistant Dean in charge of Sophomores...
Died. Robert Emmet Hannegan, 46, whose rise from St. Louis ward boss to a key spot in the Democratic Party helped put Harry Truman in the White House; of a heart ailment; in St. Louis. As a St. Louis party whip, Hannegan backed Senator Truman's renomination in the 1940 Missouri primary; as chairman of the Democratic National Committee (1944-47). he led the fourth-term fight, persuaded F.D.R. to drop Henry Wallace as running mate and pressured the convention into picking Truman. Rewarded with the postmaster-generalship (1945), Hannegan i resigned his political jobs a year later...
...biggest day of the biggest week of the single scull season closed last night with Dick Emmet ensconced as king of the University singles. Tomorrow many of yesterday's singles participants and seven Crimson eights will churn downstream for the festive American Rowing Association Regatta...
...Emmet, a first year Law student, fulfilled the expectations of Weld and of Newell, where he rowed on the varsity eight last year, by winning the three-quarter mile senior singles race. Reeling out a long, powerful stroke with a slow, lazy recovery to the half-mile mark, Emmet raised the stroke to 35 per minute on the last half-mile to outspurt Homer Zink, quarter-mile ace, by a boat length. The time: 5:10.0, the second best course time ever...