Word: bigwig
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Night is an autobiography, but through its pages slinks many a Communist bigwig. There is Bulgarian Comrade Georgi Dimitrov, now secretary of the Communist International, once hero of the Reichstag fire trial. Valtin reveals him as the flabby, dandified, over-perfumed head (for many years) of the Comintern's West European underground section. There is sly, foxy Heinz Neumann, who plotted the 1927 uprising in Canton, China. Once Stalin's darling, he was shot in Stalin's Purge. There is George Mink, ex-Philadelphia taxi driver, Communist organizer of New York's water front, OGPU gunman...
...silver, glass, Chinese ceramics. Born in Melbourne, son of a Presbyterian minister, Murdoch (not knighted till 1933) was doing pretty well as manager of a press cable service when he set out as a correspondent for the war in 1915. But he got his real start as an Empire bigwig when he landed in Britain, handed Lloyd George a confidential report on conditions in Gallipoli. Soon he was chatting with Cabinet ministers, generals, big businessmen in London, and Lord Northcliffe...
Nazi penetration of Latin America is a predictable certainty, according to Professor Leach. But another Harvard bigwig, Professor Alvin Hansen, is not so pessimistic. In an article in the October issue of Foreign Affairs the noted economist states that "an economic bloc consisting of the United States and all the countries in areas A and B"-that is, all Latin American nations except the five southernmost ones-"would have a solid foundation in the economic self-interest of all the countries involved. If it should be deemed desirable to include this entire area within in a single customs union...
British Laborite Harold J. Laski is a sometime professor of economics at London's School of Economics, sometime lecturer at Harvard, sometime White House guest of Franklin D. Roosevelt, great & good friend of many a New Deal bigwig, including Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. Samuel Grafton writes I'd Rather Be Right, a New Dealing column in the New York Post. Both their books are important because they talk out loud in public about hopes that most New Dealers prefer to talk about only among New Dealers. Both are, whether the authors know it or not, handbooks...
Greater Boston Republicans will wind up their campaign with torchlight parades here and a mammoth rally at the Cambridge Rindge Technical High School tonight where bigwig Republicans will speak...