Word: gordons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lionel S. Marks, Gordon McKay Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Emeritus, and perhaps the dean of American mechanical engineers, yesterday warned that "another general war will plunge the economic conditions of the world to such depths that the masses will be re-living the Dark Ages...
...Canadian people could claim a share of the credit. They had dug deep into their jeans to pay boosted income taxes, to buy victory bonds. Canada's tough, able Price Policeman Donald Gordon did the rest. Among other things, he poured out subsidies (to bridge the gap between fixed prices and rising costs) at a $140,000,000-a-year clip...
...candidate was tall, balding Gordon Dupee, 28, research director of the University's radio office, which produces Round Table. Presumptive reasons for the blackballing: 1) Dupee is a forthright conscientious objector (though 4-F); 2) only a short time ago, as a working student, he was the club's steward. The club council insisted, however, that Applicant Dupee had been rejected simply because he is "personally objectionable." Cracked a member: "Hell, everybody in the club is objectionable to everybody else in it-and rightly...
...Late George Apley (adapted from John P. Marquand's novel by the author and George S. Kaufman; produced by Max Gordon) neatly blends not-too-broad laughs with Beacon Street atmosphere. A pleasant footlighting of Marquand's famous satire, it will doubtless detain its thin-blooded Brahmin hero (Leo G. Carroll) on barbarian Broadway for a shockingly long time. And if the stage Apley is portrayed a little more in the rough than in the round, he never-thanks to the fine perceptiveness and wonderful finish of Actor Carroll's performance-turns into outright caricature...
Frenchmen called it Le New York, Americans the Paris Herald. It was as much a Parisian fixture as the Café de la Paix, as American as the Toonerville Trolley. Founded in 1887 by James Gordon Bennett, the younger, the New York Herald Tribune, European edition, was essentially a small-town paper. It carefully avoided controversies, scrupulously reported "personals" about the rich and famous...