Word: golden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This was a fair estimate of the golden lure that had led so many high-salaried (and high-taxed) stars-e.g., Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, Bing Crosby-into the ranks of the independents...
Here, however, is a golden opportunity to make the break with tradition. But because of the staggering French taxation, which must be largely allocated for food and defense, it seems logical to expect that some of the financial burden of reconstruction must fall on countries, such as the United States, who can pay and who should feel partly obligated...
Dave Farrell, Moravec, and Senseney were the golden-boys at the plate, each getting two hits for three tries...
...Brain. Jake Arvey was born 50 years ago near the Loop. He worked his way through school into law and Chicago politics. He became Pat Nash's golden-haired boy when, at Nash's bidding, he led Jewish voters to the polls to vote against Jewish Governor Horner. In the Kelly-Nash machine, where Nash was the muscle and Ed Kelly the front, Jake Arvey became the brain ("the only man in the organization who ever read a book"). As a National Guard officer in the Judge Advocate General's office, he went to the Philippines with...
Arbiters of culture now are Mrs. Leonora Wood Armsby, who runs Pierre Monteux's San Francisco Symphony, Mrs. Alma de Bretteville Spreckels, who campaigns for sanity in art. Faces come & go around the Palace Hotel bar, John's Rendezvous, Golden Gate Park: "Jake" Ehrlich, attorney for the underworld; Bill Hurley, Third Street saloonkeeper who ran for mayor with the slogan: "Get up early and vote for Hurley; stay in bed and be misled." Henry Kaiser rides importantly back & forth over crowded Bay Bridge to Oakland...