Word: bigwig
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...arriving in Singapore last week on his Pacific tour, New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey had a complaint to make. In a speech before the bigwig Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, Dewey fished out a clipping from the English-language Singapore Straits-Times. Its front page carried a bannerline story and a four-column photo of the Cicero, Ill riots (TIME, July 23). Complained Dewey: "I am shocked to find that an incident of racial prejudice involving a few hundred people out of a nation of 150 million people is front-page news in Singapore...
Long Hours. Recently, welcome word came to Italy that Ulanova would appear for a festival concert at Florence's Teatro Comunale. Into Florence, three weeks ago, came ten Russians, accompanied by the secretary of the Rome Embassy and an Italian Communist bigwig. Heading and herding the group was one Alexander Kholodilin, bearer of a jawbreaking title: Chief of the Central Delegation of the Musical Institution of the Art Committee of the U.S.S.R. Council of Ministers. His wards were the cream of Russian stars. Eight of them-three concert singers, two violinists, a pianist, two ballet dancers...
...rebuff. British authorities in Hong Kong had seized an oil tanker whose ownership was in dispute between Red China and the Nationalists. In retaliation, Peking confiscated the property of the British Shell Company of China (which has installations in Shanghai, Canton, Tientsin, Amoy & Hankow). In London, a Tory bigwig huffed: "Palmerston would have sent a gunboat at once." But a Labor policymaker tut-tutted: "We must not be the ones to set the east aflame-or to turn that heat against the west. Patience, unending patience...
...American Mercury and the only permanent member of the reporters' panel, often gets a tenacious grip on an evasive guest and shakes damaging admissions from him. Other members of the shifting, four-man panel come from the top drawer of the U.S. press, and many a bigwig has winced under the volley of questions from such reporters as the New York Times's "Scotty" Reston, Raymond Brandt of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, U.P.'s Merriman Smith, and Columnists Marquis Childs and Drew Pearson...
...local mill-owning Klan bigwig (Hugh Sanders) is pictured as a cynical racketeer fattening on the dues and fees of an ignorant rank & file. In the movie's best performance, Actor Cochran, bullying and toadying by turn, creates a picture of an ugly, slack-witted Klansman. Storm Warning hits hard at these characters. By knowing when to feint as well as when to punch, the picture loses no excitement, gains a chance to make its message connect where it will do the most good...