Word: bigwig
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the townspeople of Fulton agreed that never had Bullet shot so high, or rung the bell such a bong. For the college's annual Green Foundation lecture, supposed to be delivered by a bigwig "of international reputation," Bullet McCluer boldly went after really big game. He confided in Brigadier General Harry H. Vaughan, military aide to Harry Truman, a star football center at Westminster when Bullet was a star debater. Vaughan took him in to see the President. Look, said Bullet, talking fast, what a great idea it would be-especially at Fulton, in the heart...
...Washington newsmen, peace finally declared itself last week. Slicked up in white ties & tails, they trooped with 500 bigwig guests (most of the hosts brought their bosses) into the swank Statler Hotel. There they revived a 60-year-old tradition, lapsed for four wartime years: the famed Gridiron Club dinners...
...rascally "old dragon" of Yunnan. By gun and guile, Lung had ruled that strategic southwestern province of China since 1927. His capital, Kunming, was the biggest U.S. air base in the country, and during the war he had played host to many a U.S. officer and touring bigwig. Last week Chiang deposed the "old dragon" of Yunnan, completing a political conquest of the vast western hinterland...
...only on economic or technical matters. He has developed the knack of boiling his own economic ideas down to clean, bare bones. Sample: "The whole objective of industry should be to reduce prices. That's what produces employment and expands business." The Way Up. Unlike many another G.M. bigwig, Mr. Sloan did not drive himself to the top by his own supercharger...
British newsmen in the U.S. felt slighted: bigwig U.S. officials sometimes discriminated against them. To the White House last week, to plead the British case, went Paul Miller, the A.P.'s assistant general manager (A.P. worries that British officials might retaliate against A.P. men abroad). He found President Truman surprisingly willing to talk about the subject -for another reason...