Word: grew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That was the beginning of George's rise. He made himself useful in small political ways. He espoused the New Deal, helped work out WPA with Harry Hopkins, helped think up the Roosevelt Birthday Balls. His circle of friends grew. The Home Insurance Co. made him a vice president in charge of public relations, and corporations began putting him on their boards...
...evening wore on, Pauline Hutt grew frightened. Finally she bundled up her nine-year-old son and together they began a frantic search in the biting zero wind and darkness. When she found her husband, he was trailing blood as he crawled toward home. He mumbled that he had slipped on the ice, struck his gun against a rock and shot himself...
Joseph Clark Grew '02, former Assistant Secretary of State and United States Ambassador to Japan from 1932 until the outbreak of war, will speak at the Faculty Club's annual dinner on Tuesday February 26. This meeting will be open only to members and their families. Of one of Grew's last official visits to the University, in May, 1948, he was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Law by President Conant...
Divorced. By Frances Heenan ("Peaches") Browning Hynes Civelli, 35, child bride (at 15) of late Manhattan Millionaire Edward West ("Daddy") Browning, who grew up to be a burlesqueen: Joseph Civelli, 62, San Francisco store executive, her third daddy; in Reno...
...John O'Hara (Appointment in Samarra). Protest had turned into corrosive petulance or special pleading for the Left. Frustration had replaced anger. No U.S. writer saw U.S. life whole; and even the scrap he saw, he usually saw over the rim of a cocktail glass. The belief grew that U.S. novelists could not write novels...