Word: greys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senators; they and Chief Justice Fred Vinson made it by a couple of minutes before noon. Somebody remembered that a Bible would be needed; there wasn't one in Forrestal's office. An aide hurried off and scrounged one. At 12:07 p.m., James Vincent Forrestal, in grey flannel suit and soft collar, solemnly said, "I do, so help...
Editor Hamilton Fish Armstrong had packed the anniversary issue of his grave, grey Foreign Affairs with a roster of big names: Henry L. Stimson, Sumner Welles, Anthony Eden, the Earl of Halifax, Historian Arnold Toynbee, World Bank President John J. McCloy...
World Forum. Nobody ever accused Foreign Affairs of being exciting reading; the magazine and its readers are much too serious to worry about boring anybody. A forum for high, grey brows, Foreign Affairs offered "a broad hospitality to divergent ideas." In its sober rag pages, chancellors, premiers and secretaries of state, in & out of office, have debated the issues of their day. France's Premier Poincare, Germany's Chancellor Wilhelm Marx, Czechoslovakia's President Thomas Masaryk discussed war guilt. Colonel E. M. House and Massachusetts' intransigent nationalist Henry Cabot Lodge argued the merits of the League...
...business, and with a fine series of service aces, drop-shots and volleys managed to keep his crown, so that he can profitably quit it (he is about to turn pro). The score: 4-6, 2-6, 6-1, 6-0, 6-3. When Kramer took a bow-unsmiling, grey-faced and relieved-he got a thin ripple of applause. When Parker bowed, the ovation lasted more than a minute. The new women's singles queen: blonde Louise Brough, who beat her pal Margaret Osborne 8-6, 4-6, 6-1. Then both of them had a good...
Then the steelmen nimbly turned the investigating committee into a sounding-board to broadcast their case. Bethlehem Steel's Eugene Grace deplored-but denied any responsibility for-the existence of a racketeering "grey market" in steel. Present extraordinary demands for steel could have been met, said Jones & Laughlin's Chairman Ben Moreell, if strikes had not caused a postwar loss of 18 million tons of production...