Word: bigwig
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...desk clear, he hurried off to Illinois to make a waterway inspection with Governor Louis Lincoln Emmerson. With him he carried a speech on waterways for delivery later in the week at Minneapolis, whither he and many another bigwig were supposed to go to help a shrewd man named Wilbur Burton Foshay dedicate a new office building designed like the Washington Monument...
...popular. International Advertising Association President Charles Clark Younggreen led it down the aisle opening day when he said: "We have come here to present the credo that human and national differences can be settled otherwise than by appeal to arms." England's Lord George Allardice Riddell, newspaper bigwig, gave it a seat when he said: "Who of us sitting here today would twelve years ago have predicted that Americans, Frenchmen and Englishmen would meet in Berlin to discuss advertising methods?" France's Dr. Marcel Knecht, secretary of Le Matin, gave it a place on the platform when...
...Write a letter to each bigwig saying: "You will receive in a few days an official invitation. . . . Only about 300 of these are being issued to distinguished people...
...collector for Mr. Hoover during the campaign. The matter came last week to the attention of Assistant Postmaster-General W. Irving Glover, secretary of the committee in charge of the inaugural. Mr. Glover quickly announced that Mr. Blair had no official standing. He wondered how Mr. Blair obtained the bigwig list, started an investigation...
Harry Ford Sinclair, oilman, heavy contributor to the Republican war chest of 1920, and John Jacob Raskob, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, celebrated a day of mutual goodwill. It was Father & Son Day at the Newman School in Lakewood, N. J., where Messrs. Sinclair & Raskob and many another bigwig met sons at school...