Word: bigwig
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Almost every U. S. business bigwig who has been to Moscow knows slender, dry, efficient Spencer Williams. Most of them have rushed to him at one time or another for help in dealing with Bolshevik mountains of red tape...
...consider un-neutral and use as a pretext for aggression. Most newsmen complied by restraining themselves: persecution of the Jews in Poland and Austria was soft-pedaled, concentration camps were ignored. For at least two years no cartoon of Hitler, Göring, Goebbels, or any other Nazi bigwig has appeared in a Swedish paper...
...Times editoriat liked him. They kept sending him to conventions for 16 years, summoning Davis back from free-lancing to keep Godfrey on the record. After the 1936 Democratic convention, Davis killed off his aging Jeffersonian, interring Jeffersonianism along with his bones, and no less a Times bigwig than Washington Correspondent Arthur Krock wrote his obituary...
...slim, efficient James Lewis Morrill, vice president of the university, or (second choice) Howard Landis Bevis, a Harvard law professor who had been an Ohio Supreme Court judge and finance director for two Governors. The trustees, unable to agree on Morrill or Bevis, considered more than a score of bigwig outsiders, deadlocked on some, were turned down by others (notably Chicago's famed Physicist Arthur H. Compton). Last week, after an angry hour and a half, peace, as it must to all squabbles, finally descended, and Howard Bevis was elected as Ohio State's seventh president...
Marriage revealed. Fritz Mandl, 39, Austrian munitions manufacturer and ex-Fascist bigwig, divorced husband of Hedy Kiesler Lamarr Mandl Markey (Ecstasy) ; and Herta Schneider, blonde onetime Austrian actress; place and time his secret...