Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Faces. For him, it was a week of beginnings and endings. He posed with his official family for the last Cabinet picture of his first Administration, giving the public one of its infrequent looks at men like Donaldson, Brannan and Sawyer. Of the men grouped around Truman, only one was a holdover from Franklin Roosevelt's regime. He was Defense Secretary James Forrestal...
...dark corridor, a single candle glows. Only the candle keeps you from walking straight into the wall where it is held by a clumsy piece of wire, for here the corridor turns in a sharp L. Around the corner, you find yourself blindly stumbling over people's feet, and hear voices whispering. A voice hoarse with age or cold: "From Greifswald you come? Last night?" A woman's voice, dull and flat: "Not much, about 60 marks left." A man's voice, strong with impatience: "How long must we wait? Do they think we are cattle...
Ever since he got around aging Dan Tobin and became the real ruler of the Teamsters Union, Seattle's tough, pale-eyed Dave Beck has been remolding the A.F.L.'s biggest labor group to suit his fancy. Last week in Manhattan, Beck announced what he proposed to do with his juggernaut when he gets it well-streamlined. He was going to start a coast-to-coast organizing roundup that would make other labor-recruiting drives look like ballet tryouts...
That was the credo of Andrew Undershaft, the munitions magnate in Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara. By their works, the world has known many Undershafts. It has always denounced them, and always kept them around. The Undershafts lived by making weapons of war for anyone who could pay the bill; sometimes they also made wars. Through the twilight of fact and legend that surrounded them and their international arms deals, they were known to Sunday supplement readers as merchants of death. The least known, and perhaps the last, of their brotherhood was a man who looked like a tall...
...French press took small notice of his passing. Wrote one Paris paper: "Let this be a lesson to generals. The cannon-makers die in bed." In Hayange, the De Wendel family and 15,000 De Wendel workers gathered in a drizzling rain around the village church to bury François de Wendel. On the day he died, he had become a grandfather. His only son's child was named François, so that another François de Wendel could some day be iron master, provided (as seemed likely) that Europe would still need armorers...