Word: bigwig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Adolf Hitler was by no means the only bigwig in Garmisch-Partenkirchen last week. His entourage included Air Minister Göring, Minister of Propaganda Goebbels, War Minister von Blomberg, Julius Streicher, Interior Minister Frick, Storm Troop Leader Lutze and almost every other important Nazi in Germany. Nonetheless, Correspondent Frederick T. Birchall of the New York Times, which last autumn gave the loudest bursts of publicity to Jeremiah T. Mahoney's efforts to have the U. S. withdraw from the 1936 Olympic Games (TIME, Nov. 4), felt justified in writing: ". . . Not the slightest evidence of religious, political or racial...
...stepping stone to a later agreement." With deadlock already achieved, the U. S. State Department resigned itself months ago to the fact that no new treaty would come from this year's Conference. The British accepted the fact but were not resigned to complete failure. Omitting bigwig statesmen, whose presence would only steer the meeting into the dangerous waters of international contention, they planned to have a nice quiet conference by a few naval experts with the hope that these specialists in the business of killing each other at sea could work out some sort of gentlemen...
...days later, wearing his usual "jampot" collar, Donor Hales bustled back to the Normandie with many a shipping bigwig for a handsome luncheon and ceremony. Sutherland, as chairman of the Transatlantic Blue Ribbon Committee, took charge of the actual presentation, handing the huge globule over to bulky Captain Rene Pugnet of the Normandie along with a speech reciting the history of transatlantic crossings since 1492. Then Donor Hales clambered jovially to his feet, gave the speech he always gives, which usually begins: "The Haleses never amounted to much before...
Joseph Boggs Beale was a personal friend of Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, General John Hancock, many another bigwig. Yet elderly Philadelphians last week could remember but one political story connected with him. When James A. Garfield was offered the Republican nomination against Winfield Hancock in 1880, he wrote to his mother asking her advice. The Professor was having a dish of tea at the Garfield home when the letter arrived...
...mansion with weather-stained shingles and white columns only a field away from the estate of Rhode Island's rich U. S. Senator Peter Goelet Gerry. Also nearby was the swank yacht-going Warwick Country Club, to which belong John D. Rockefeller Jr., Harold S. Vanderbilt, many another bigwig. Senator Gerry and club members often graced Neighbor Rettich's lawn parties with their presence...