Word: farflung
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chairman: Michigan State President John A. Hannah, 55. Republican Hannah served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower and Personnel from 1953-54, was an NRA poultry code administrator in the early 19305, became President of Michigan State in 1941 and nursed it from a modest college to a farflung, football-happy giant. As Assistant Secretary, Hannah had a hand in implementing desegregation in the armed forces. No fire-eater, he once expressed cautious sympathy for "local conditions," calling integration a goal to be reached by an "evolutionary process...
Died. Margaret Thompson Biddle, 59, Montana-born mining heiress, ex-wife of wealthy Soldier-Diplomat Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr., grande dame of American society in Paris since World War II, sometime authoress (Women' of England) and Paris newshen (Realties, farflung columnist for Woman's Home Companion); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Paris...
...more than 25 minutes of the first half, those energetic cheerleaders seemed the best the Army could produce. Navy's Quarterback George Welsh, with his deadly pitching arm and his farflung halfbacks, was just too much. With deceptive ease, the Middies caught the opening kick-off and steamed 76 yds. for the first score of the game. It hardly seemed to matter that the extra-point kick was wide. Whenever Welsh dropped back to pass, the Navy line gave him plenty of time. And he was almost always on target. When the Army secondary dropped back to cover. Welsh...
...every Foreign Minister of the world knew what international Communism is," he said. "It is disturbing if the foreign affairs of one of our American republics are conducted by one so innocent that he has to ask that question." Then Dulles defined international Communism in blistering terms as "that farflung, clandestine political organization which is operated by the leaders of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and which, since 1939, has brought 15 once-independent nations into a state of abject servitude...
Millionaire Friedrich Flick, onetime financier of the SS, is a German coal baron whom the allies jailed (1945-50) for using slave labor in his farflung mines. Two-thirds of Flick's holdings were grabbed by the Communist government of Eastern Germany; the rest were ordered broken up by U.S. and British trustbusters. Flick agreed to sell his majority (60%) interest in the Harpener Bergbau, and looked around for a German customer. He found none: German businessmen, strapped for cash, need all their ready capital to build new factories...