Word: bigwig
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Died. Richard W. Lawrence, 70, New York financier and Chamber of Commerce bigwig, onetime (1928-29) president of the National Republican Club; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...says, "at the arrival of Tufty with 26-count 'em, 26-papers." She trained her staff of cubs to ferret out local angles in the news, peddled her clients a complete line of political stories and personality items, including her own daily columns. She soon had many a bigwig, including Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg, eating out of her hand. Two years ago she took on as partner J. Albert Dear, a New Jersey publisher...
...wide Potsdamer Platz, which juts from the Russian sector into the British and U.S. sectors, Russian-sector police staged another raid on German black marketeers. A big crowd of Germans quickly gathered, burned Communist flags in the street, and tried to overturn a car suspected of containing a Red bigwig. Women shouted, "Get out of Berlin, you Communist bandits!" When the crowd stoned the raiders, the police answered with gunfire. Several Germans were wounded...
Follow That Car. Correspondents got no briefings before the Kremlin visits, and no comment afterwards. They haunted the embassy entrances, set out in hot pursuit whenever a bigwig drove away, trailed the envoys to every lunch and dinner date. Arriving at the British embassy after one tiring encounter with Molotov, Ambassador Smith, usually an even-tempered man, snapped irritably: "You just sit here. I'll tell you everything." Then he told the newsmen nothing...
...meeting had more lung power than political strength. The delegates, except for those from Mississippi and Alabama, were political outs and has-beens. Most bigwig Southern politicos pointedly stayed away. Even Arkansas' Governor Ben Laney, who had withdrawn as the rebels' favorite son at Philadelphia, remained aloof in his downtown hotel room, contented himself with offering advice...