Word: bigwig
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...killers the time had come to kill themselves. Nazi officials and bigwig Germans began to practice the act for which their language has an expressive word-Selbstmord, self-murder...
Died. Charles D. ("King of the Arctic") Brower, 83, rich Alaskan whaling and trading bigwig, famed host whom the late Will Rogers and Wiley Post were flying to visit when their plane crashed in 1935; of a heart attack; in Point Barrow, Alaska...
...First Day. First off, Henry Wallace was left with almost no high-placed Administration bigwig to fight for him publicly. His on-the-scene supporters were all in the New Deal wing in the Senate, headed by Florida's Pepper and Montana's Murray. But they are not strategists. Thus it fell to Majority Leader Alben Barkley, abed in Naval Hospital with an ulcerated eye, to get up and lead the Wallace fight. First thing Barkley did was to demand a pro-Wallace statement from the White House. It was not immediately forthcoming...
Divorced. Donald M. Nelson, 56, special assistant to Franklin Roosevelt, ex-WPBoss, onetime Soars, Roebuck bigwig; by blond, childless Helen W. Nelson, 51; after 18 years of marriage, four of separation; in Chicago...
...Last week, with the grievous error atoned for and corrected, the Times proudly printed its true 50,000th issue. For the occasion it devoted several columns and an editorial to itself, printed two columns of tributes from King George VI, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, many another Empire bigwig...