Word: woodrow
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...named Ezra Fitch and a sportsman named David Abercrombie, A & F made its name catering to the outdoor elite. It outfitted Theodore Roosevelt's African safaris and Admiral Richard Byrd's expedition to Antarctica, and counted among other famous customers Flyer Charles Lindbergh, Fisherman Herbert Hoover, Golfer Woodrow Wilson and aground Sportsman Ernest Hemingway. Yet, while it eventually expanded into a chain with branches in nine cities, A & F never adapted to modern-style retailing or to a younger, more budget-conscious generation of activists who preferred to buy from department stores and discounters...
...might just as well burn cash to heat your homes or dry your crops." Sure, his energy plan was "bitter medicine," he conceded, but it was better than the "true catastrophe" that would follow without it. The President spent the night at the home of a wealthy Iowa farmer, Woodrow Wilson Diehl...
...last Friday, Jimmy Carter arrived at the 1,600-acre farm in Indianola, Iowa, 16 miles outside Des Moines, to spend the night as a guest of Farmer Woodrow Wilson Diehl and his wife Mary, It was the President's second overnight visit with an American family-and the Diehls' second visit from a President. In 1966 Lyndon Johnson stopped by for a few hours to look over Marywood, one of Iowa's showcase farms, on his way to a Democratic fund raiser in Des Moines...
...earnings peak of $11.2 million. A year ago, Hefner hired Daniels, 48, a vice president of the Knight-Ridder chain. Daniels is a onetime newspaperman (city editor, the Miami Herald) and grandson of the late North Carolina publisher Josephus Daniels, who was Secretary of the Navy under Woodrow Wilson. He was reluctant to take on Hefner's problems but was wooed by the Chief Rabbit's salary offer of $250,000 annually, plus a $225,000 bonus...
Verba received the Woodrow Wilson Award for "The Changing American Voter," a book showing how voters in the last 20 years have moved away from political parties to become more independent, he said...