Word: drew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...That evening a driver called for me at the hotel to take me to meet the leader of the underground, a man well-known to the police, who have yet to catch him. After doubling around the city three or four times we drew up to an old ramshackle house on the edge of town...
Protested: the will of Eleanor Medill ("Cissie") Patterson, late publisher of the Washington Times-Herald; by her only daughter, Countess Felicia Gizyclca (exwife of ex-Patterson Columnist Drew Pearson). Felicia, who ran away from home at 18, had been left most of Cissie's personal effects, some real estate, and an income of $25,000 a year for life. But the estate totaled better than $16 million (the Times-Herald was left to seven executives). Felicia protested to the court that her mother was not of "sound mind and memory" when she made the will, and that...
...Truro last week, the annual convention of District 26, United Mine Workers of America, drew up its demands for 1949 wages. First & foremost was a whopping general increase of $2.56 a day over the present $7.64 basic rate. There were also carefully scaled demands for men who work at the coal face. Explained one union official: "It's a new type of policy we've adopted, with emphasis on the actual production of coal at the face . . . It's all bent towards increased production for the industry...
This want ad, signed "Henry Higgins," ran for two days in three New York City newspapers; it drew more than 100 replies. Seven of the young women who applied displayed a suspicious literacy by insisting that their names were Eliza Doolittle...
...American who observed Juliana at The Hague. Congress of Europe (TIME, May 17) last week drew a word picture of the Princess listening to Winston Churchill: "Juliana sat leaning forward, her firm chin firmly planted in her firm hand, squinting a little, nodding a little from time to time as she followed with an obvious effort Churchill's not very difficult line of thought. Her mien was strikingly familiar: it recalled the American matron who had learned at Bryn Mawr that an active interest in public affairs was the duty of an educated, responsible woman...