Word: bigwig
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coony, but anonymous Democratic bigwig made a personal three-state poll on Senate races, returned to Washington convinced that Democrat Benton would lose in Connecticut, that Democrat Lehman would win in New York. "I just don't know what to think about Ohio...
Died. Benjamin Franklin Stapleton, 80, five times mayor of Denver (1923-47, with a four-year lapse from 1931 to 1935) and Colorado Democratic bigwig; of a heart attack; in Denver...
Married. Lowell Thomas Jr., 26, photographer-son of the radio commentator; and Mary Taylor Pryor, 22, daughter of Samuel F. Pryor, Pan American World Airways bigwig and onetime Republican National Committeeman; in Greenwich, Conn...
...CGIL (Confederazione Generate Italiana del Lavoro). From 1944 to 1948 it operated almost as a monopolistic, aggressive state within the state, claiming 6,500,000 members and another 5,000,000 affiliates, using the general strike as a political bludgeon against the government. CGIL's boss was Communist Bigwig Giuseppe di Vittorio, who ran the show with a strong arm and a jealous eye for any non-Communist challenge to his power...
...official residence, "Rydhave," in Copenhagen's northern suburbs, had just been redecorated. A housewarming was in order. Instead of a bigwig party, the ambassador invited the painters, plasterers and carpenters who had remodeled her house (90 in all, including wives). Dressed in their Sunday best, the guests flocked in, shook hands with the American diplomat and her husband, Artist John Anderson, tackled the smörgåsbord, Cokes and aquavit, sang folk songs around the grand piano in the salon, watched documentary movies about New York, baseball and Hawaii. It was 2 a.m. when the party broke...