Word: bigwig
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last week, with the grievous error atoned for and corrected, the Times proudly printed its true 50,000th issue. For the occasion it devoted several columns and an editorial to itself, printed two columns of tributes from King George VI, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, many another Empire bigwig...
...other high posts were reshuffled: dapper, German-trained Chu Chia-hua became Minister of Education, replacing Kuomintang bigwig Chen Li-fu, who took over the Ministry of Kuomintang Organization. Liberal, professorial Dr. Wang Shih-chieh became Minister of Information, replacing Liang Han-chao, who received the portfolio of Overseas Affairs. Chang Li-sheng, Secretary General of the Executive Yuan, became Minister of the Interior, replacing Chou Chung-yao, who took the vice-presidency of the Examination Yuan...
Apostle of Defeat. Over & above the squabble over figures, one fact stood out: there is a widening split between the conservative thinking of Dr. Moulton's Institution and the optimistic approach to the postwar problems of business of such groups as C.E.D. As one bigwig summed up: "Brookings Institution appears to be becoming the modern apostle of defeatism. Its position implies that the ingenuity and initiative of American businessmen and workers, so completely demonstrated during the war, will disappear with the peace. This suggests the defeatism of believers in the mature economy theory...
...Nelson, just back from China (TIME, Oct. 2), will stay in the official family in an as-yet-undefined job as the President's roving ambassador on postwar foreign trade. (In Chungking, Chinese smiled, talked of renaming their guest mansion "The House of Exile." The last three U.S. bigwig visitors have made a political fadeout : Wendell Willkie, Henry Wallace, and now Nelson...
Last Nazi bigwig's wife to do her fall shopping in Paris was probably Emmy Göring. She paid a flying visit to her favorite couturiere, Jeanne Lanvin in the rue du Faubourg Saint-Honore, just a fortnight before the Americans came to town...