Word: greys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...published a book that bids fair to cook his goose for good, as far as the Communists are concerned. Adventures of a Young Man, first of an intended series of contemporary portraits, traces the evolution, in the '203 and '305, of a middle-class radical. Sandy-haired, grey-eyed, idealistic Glenn Spotswood was brought up to be a Christian Gentleman. But his father was liberal enough to get fired from Columbia University for opposing U. S. entry into the War. Other radicalizers in Glenn's young manhood were a good-humored rebel chum; a freshman roommate hipped...
Diplomat Grew's sporting proclivities serve him well in Tokyo. He is a baseball fiend; so are the Japanese. His faculty for golfing in dignity and black shorts necessarily appeals to a people to whom dignity is everything. His impressively good clothes, grey hair, dark mustache, lithe frame support a slightly British aura of raj, accompanied by a Yankee capacity for work. He drives his embassy staff seven hours a day (a frightful stint for the Foreign Service). Many an Ambassador lets his staff do the handwork. Joe Grew peck-types his own reports, producing documents highly respected...
...list of its salaries submitted to SEC, A. G. & E. recorded paying one Ben Grey $55,000 for eleven months' work in 1937. Promptly SEC raised an astonished eyebrow. Who, it asked was this mysterious person and what service had he performed for A. G. & E. to earn such a fat fee? Last week A. G. & E. Vice President Fred F. Burroughs appeared unhappily before SEC to explain. Fidgeting, he told SEC Lawyer Lewis Dabney that Ben Grey was a short man with a blond mustache whose job had been "to mix with the right people" in Washington...
...Grey may not have lobbied for A. G. & E. but in Washington he is considered a lobbyist. A steely-eyed gentleman of 45, he is one of that populous capital group who appear to know everything about everybody but tell nothing about themselves. He has been variously a newshawk, an ambulance driver for the A.E.F. in France, an adviser to the coal interests when they drew up their NRA code...
This week SEC will call Ben Grey to explain himself. At last week's hearings A. G. & E.'s Burroughs told Interrogator Dabney that among the men on whom Ben Grey reported was Lewis Dabney himself...