Word: drew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Drew Pearson revealed in one of his columns early in 1945, the motives for the British policy in Greece were at least partly linked to the fact that Hambro's Bank of London, the chief British creditors of Greece . . . had bailed Winston Churchill out of bankruptcy...
After covering the U.N. General Assembly, Izvestia Correspondent Victor Poltoratsky wrote for his paper the kind of ill-natured piece about New York City that visitors have been writing ever since Dickens. From Moscow last week, New York Timesman Drew Middleton cabled a retort...
...proceedings drew toward a 4:10 P.M. close, Assistant Attorney General John F. Sonnett was arguing that Federal District Court was right in slapping the $3,510,000 contempt fines on Lewis and the United Mine Workers...
Pearls & Pirates. Once Cartagena, metropolis of the Spanish Main, was the great port where the gold of Peru, the silver of Bolivia and the pearls of Rio Hacha (in Colombia) had awaited shipment in the annual convoy to Spain. The treasures drew freebooters and pirates-English and French; even today the names of Hawkins and Drake and Morgan are as familiar to Cartageneros as the names of Dion O'Bannion and Al Capone are to Chicagoans...
...From Drew Middleton in Moscow: "Serge Prokhovitch Zolnikov . . . makes about ten runs a month, [covers] about . . . 3)725 miles.. . . His regular pay and bonuses bring him . . . $666 to $750 a month, a good salary in the Soviet Union. . . .* Like all Russians, he looks forward to the completion ... of the Five Year Plans . . . when he and his family will have more food, more clothes...