Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this takes money, and the Stassen organization has it. Originally, all campaign expenses came from the Minnesota Fund-a war chest set up by a group of wealthy Minnesotans. Chief of the backers and money-raisers was Harry Bullis, wealthy board chairman of General Mills. Others: James Ford Bell, recently retired board chairman of General Mills; John Cowles, board chairman of Cowles Magazines (Look) and president of the Minneapolis Star and Tribune; John S. Pillsbury, board chairman of Pillsbury Mills; and Jay Hormel, board chairman of George A. Hormel & Co. But in the last 18 months, over 13,000 people...
...interview; they were not even allowed out of their car. When the Chronicle's Managing Editor Louis J. Harris tried, the Pinker-tons stopped him 50 feet short of the clubhouse. He yelled for the club's manager, who told him that the General was not to be disturbed and ordered him off the grounds...
...Major General Raymond O. Barton, a West Point classmate of Ike's, now retired and living in Augusta, got the same treatment when he called to pay his respects. He had to wire for a pass to get through the gold-plated blockade...
Behind the blockade and the club's magnificent stand of magnolias, Ike and his party relaxed. They were quartered in Bobby Jones's white-frame cottage. General Ike got in a few licks at his hobby, oil painting. In the evening, the women slipped downtown to a movie, while the men played bridge with Clifford Roberts, chairman of the club's executive committee, and shot the breeze. One morning Ike gleefully sank a birdie 2 on the short fourth hole, finished the round with a creditable...
...What Are We Here For?" The U.N. General Assembly, meeting at Flushing Meadows last week to wrestle a third time with the Palestine problem, seemed as paralyzed as its bewildered representatives in Jerusalem. Uruguay's Delegate Dr. Enrique Rodriguez Fabregat asked irritably of his gloomy fellow delegates: "What are we here for?" By week's end there had been no answer from U.S. Delegate Warren Austin, to whom the assembly looked for a new plan to replace partition. Behind the scenes, however, the U.S. was trying to work out a temporary U.N. trusteeship. But before any plan could...