Word: brass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...High brass found that it really preferred to ride the trains between Viareggio and Leghorn, instead of commuting in staff cars...
...Emperor of the area he has to hold still for the rap. ... It may be an army that General Lee is running, but to me it looks more like a combination of junket, political shakedown, misuse of Governmentmaterial, maltreatment of subordinates and a happy hunting-ground for desk-bound brass which spent most of its war at home and is now trying to embalm its rank abroad...
When rough & ready Robert S. Allen hopped off the "Washington Merry-Go-Round" five years ago and went to war, Partner Drew Pearson wrote a sentimental prophecy: "I shall miss Bob, but . . . he'll be back handing out brass rings, punching the tickets for rides on the old 'Merry-Go-Round.'" Few Washington newsmen would have bet on it, for the famed team of inside dopesters had been notoriously cold toward each other. When Allen came home in 1945, he was in no hurry to get back to the old stand. For more than six months...
...last week Pearson's prediction finally came true. Allen's byline reappeared-alone-on the "Merry-Go-Round." "I'm just filling in while Pearson takes a rest," he said modestly. At week's end, as forecast, he was busily bestowing brass rings. The recipients: selected members of the working press. One was the San Francisco Chronicle's Charles Raudebaugh, who, said Columnist Allen, wrote a "vivid and dynamic chapter ... in Our Fair City [Editor: Robert S. Allen], best-selling study on municipal rule in the U.S. . . ." Another was Richard S. Davis, who wrote...
...William Randolph Hearst, who seldom waits for a paper to get into trouble before jacking it up. A fortnight ago, in the wake of the merger of the tabloid Chicago Times with Marshall Field's Sun (TIME, Aug. 4), a shakeup hit the Herald's top brass. Chicago-trained, cigar-chomping George Ashley De Witt came on from Washington as executive editor-the job once held by loud Lou Ruppel, who got in bad with the Chief by branding Chicago "Dirty Shirt Town." Drawling Lou Shainmark came back from the Washington bureau to his old job as managing...