Word: burgesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...case, the U.S. could not go on with its present policies without running into serious trouble. "We are so prosperous and rich that we can violate the rules for a time "and get away with it," warned W. Randolph Burgess, executive committee chairman of Manhattan's National City Bank. "But economic laws have a way of working out, and eventually we will have to pay the penalty." For the Government's deficit spending, U.S. citizens may have to start paying the penalty in higher prices in short order. Warned he: the U.S. may be in for another round...
Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 9:30 p.m., ABC). Of Mice and Men, with Burgess Meredith and June Havoc...
M.I.T. has become a place for differential analyzers, spectro-photometers, oscillographs and thryatron tubes. Out of its laboratories it has managed to produce such unexpected specimens as Humorist Gelett Burgess and Author Stuart Chase. But M.I.T.'s alumni are more apt to be of another sort: Donald Douglas of Douglas Aircraft, Alfred P. Sloan Jr. of General Motors, Gerard Swope of General Electric, and at least ten Du Fonts...
Alexander Korda imported Burgess Meredith to England to play the thoughtful, smiling, pipe-smoking analyst, who, exasperated by his ineffectual, though devoted spouse, falls in love with another woman. So intent is he on curing a young ex-flyer who has tried to kill his own wife, that the psychiatrist is unable to patch up the disintegrating marriage in his own home...
Civil Servant. In Holyport, Buckinghamshire, England, superstitious Postmaster James Thomas delayed delivering 13 congratulatory telegrams to newly weds Mr. & Mrs. Richard Lancaster-Burgess until he could compose a 14th...