Word: chauffeur
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John J. Cavanaugh, an ambitious lad of 18, first talked the chauffeur into introducing him to Notre Dame's president. Then he talked the president, the Rev. John W. Cavanaugh (no relation), into giving him a job as his secretary so he could earn his way through college. Last week at 47, "young John"-now the Rev. John himself-became Notre Dame's 14th president...
Died. Arthur Chevrolet, 61, last of the three Swiss brothers who made auto history in design, production and on the speedways; by his own hand (hanging); in Slidell, La. In 1909 Arthur became Motor-magnate William C. Durant's private chauffeur. Later he and Brothers Louis and Gaston, in partnership with Durant, formed the Chevrolet Motor Co., sold out four years later, just missed becoming motormillionaires...
Respectable Woman. To keep abreast of the woeful tide, Mrs. Gilmer is up at 7 a.m. With a stenographer and her companion-secretary, she zips through her daily grist with a sharp eye out for the "angle" that will cue a sermonette. Every afternoon her chauffeur drives her through Audubon Park and back to the swank Prytania Street apartment. Her stock wisecrack, when showing guests her fine Louis XIV bed: "I'll bet I'm the only respectable woman who ever slept...
Again the delegates headed for the city-six to a car, save for Mr. Gromyko, who rode alone behind his Russian chauffeur. Suddenly Mr. Gromyko's car stopped, fouling up the motorcade. An interpreter was dispatched to see what ailed him. It was minor: Mr. Gromyko merely wanted to know where he had been...
...Siam," continued the cable, so the search should have been easy. Yet a hunt led by Siam's Supreme Police Chief himself and a proffered reward of 1,000 ticals (approx. $67) failed to turn up a trace of the missing car, or the recently discharged royal chauffeur who disappeared at the same time...