Word: ralph
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...accuser, one Benjamin Freedman, was a peculiar and disgruntled zealot-a self-styled "excommunicated Jew" who had given financial backing to a wild-eyed, anti-Semitic hate sheet. At his instigation the Senate Armed Services Committee solemnly called a hearing, put an ex-Communist named Ralph De Sola on the witness stand and listened to four hours of hair-raising testimony...
...succeed Charles E. Wilson, who resigned to take over as director of the new Office of Defense Mobilization (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), General Electric's directors last week picked Executive Vice President Ralph J. Cordiner...
Short, greying Ralph Cordiner worked his way through Whitman College selling electric appliances in his home town of Walla Walla, Wash. He joined a G.E. Pacific Coast subsidiary in 1922 and worked his way up. In 1938, he succeeded Charlie Wilson as manager of G.E.'s Appliance and Merchandise Department, was elected vice president in February 1945 after serving as vice chairman of the War Production Board. Since then, Cordiner has been Charlie Wilson's right-hand man in planning and carrying out G.E.'s postwar expansion...
...Ryan's, on the once famous segment of 52nd Street between Fifth and Sixth. Pops Foster was already the best bass player when your father was half your age. Wild Bill Davison leads the band at Eddie Condon's 3rd Street emporium, along with Edmond Hall and Gene Schroeder. Ralph Sutton plays between sets. Nick's features Pee Wee Erwin's enthusiastic group at 10th and Seventh...
...variety show headed the P.B.H. festivities with juggling by Hugh Sheply '51, (right) magic by Bradley M. Jacobs '53 and piano playing by Ralph W. Walton '52. The P.B.H. Santa Claus, Roy F. Gootenberg '49, teaching fellow in Government, took orders for deliveries as mothers cocked their ears (left). He later handed out toys' and candy...