Word: chums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...evening with Harry Truman. (Auriol plays the violin.) On his only previous visit to Washington, as a member of the 1925 Franco-American War Debts Commission, Auriol shocked his superiors by running up and embracing the doorman at the French embassy, who turned out to be an old school chum. "If you please, Vincent, behave yourself," reproved the commission's president, stiff-backed Joseph Caillaux. "Hey, President," laughed Auriol, "what would you do if you met an old pal from Mamers...
Friends & Relatives. The conspirators, said the Government, built their belt with friends, college chums and relatives. First the jury heard the college chum. Max Elitcher, a C.C.N.Y. classmate of both Sobell's and Rosenberg's, told how Sobell had recruited him into the Communist party in 1939, when both were working in the Navy's Ordnance Bureau, how Rosenberg and Sobell on various occasions had tried to get him to steal information on projects he worked on. But he insisted he had never actually delivered any information to them himself...
They did. One was a school chum of Margaret Senteney's who had taken a walk on the night of the murder. She had seen Margaret get into a car. "It was Mr. Kirkes' grey car," she said. Another witness, an aged Italian truck farmer, swore to watching the patrolman drive down out of the foothills early on the morning after the murder...
...Theta; to be put on probation for his part in the production of a college musical, some of whose lines offended the Methodist sensibilities of Ohio Wesleyan's faculty, and to split a $2,100 profit as editor of the college yearbook, which was illustrated by a boyhood chum who later became well-known Cartoonist Milton (Steve Canyon) Caniff...
...notables from business, labor, the professions, politics and government to discuss such questions as taxation, the size of the armed forces, federal aid to education, what to do about Tito, what to do about Formosa. Before his guests arrive, an "intellectual task force" of scholars will chum out background research. When the assemblymen have talked their way through the problems, their conclusions will be published for the rest of the U.S. to chew...