Word: grafton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Engaged. Barbara Gushing, beauteous sister of the former Mrs. James Roosevelt; and Harvardman Stanley Grafton Mortimer...
...most successful managers in the country." If Wendell Willkie, for the last seven years president of Commonwealth & Southern Corp., is elected President of the U. S. in November, he will be the first American to step into the office direct from a business job. New Dealish Columnist Samuel Grafton of the New York Post thus summarized the convention: "Instead of using the Republican Party as a professional instrument for carrying out their will, they (anti-Roosevelt business interests) have expropriated the Party and decided to do the job themselves...
Henry A. Murray, Jr., Thorpe Nesbit, Neal O'Hara, Donald K. Packard, T. S. Thorndike, Herbert E. Tucker, Paul B. Watson, Albert J. Weatherhead, Benjamin P. Whitney, Frank Wigglesworth, Grafton L. Wilson...
...punchdrunk and nearly broke to cheer when the ticker tape stops moving. But last week such an intermission was welcome to the Street. The market turned on its side (at around 115 on the Dow-Jones industrials average) and lay still. Wrote New York Post Columnist Samuel Grafton: "The 'better technical position' assumed by the investor consists of his lying flat on his back in the gutter with one foot on the curb, his eyes closed and his mouth open. In this position he neither buys nor sells, and so is described as 'steadier...
...with her own café society group, including the orchidaceous Marquesa de Casa Maury and brilliant carrot-haired Editor Brendan Bracken of The Banker. Spotting "Winston," the whole party livened up, everyone sang For He's a Jolly Good Fellow, and at midnight the Duchess of Grafton permitted something about as daring as has ever been seen at a top-drawer Mayfair ball. Each of the young men, fine apple-cheeked lads mostly and quick to blush, was given a Leap-Year favor which he had to decide on the spot to wear either red side out or green...