Word: hawk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...person they referred to was hawk-nosed Bandleader Xavier Cugat, who claims that he is the only Mr. Cugat in the U.S., and sued the publishers, Houghton Mifflin, for using his name. The publishers were sufficiently impressed with his claim to settle his suit out of court. Paramount, too, paid up promptly, then changed the picture's title...
...biggest, most dramatic shake-up in transportation since the Wright Brothers got their flimsy biplane off the sand at Kitty Hawk is just around the corner-that is, if fabulous Henry J. Kaiser has his way. This week Engineer-Shipbuilder Kaiser pulled all the talk about air freighters right down to earth with a concrete proposal to build in 1943 at least 5,000 giant 70-ton flying boats like the Glenn L. Martin Mars...
...Balding, hawk-nosed Horace Ward charged his 20 clients $431,463 in 18 months. He did business with Navy and Coast Guard officers at expensive parties-for which his clients also had to pay. But he had suffered a change of heart, thought now that it was wrong for such commissions to be paid on Navy business. Asked Chairman Vinson: "When did your conscience begin to hurt you?" Said uneasy Mr. Ward, nodding toward another angry committee member: "He brought it to my attention...
First nation to re-establish headquarters on the Continent to fight the Axis, Yugoslavia last week transferred its army high command from Cairo back to the homeland and made hawk-beaked, fabulous General Draja Mihailovich chief of staff. Because some of his most effective support comes from Communist partisans, who were probably better organized among Slavic peoples than any others in Europe, it was a good guess that General Mihailovich's appointment had the assent of the U.S.S.R. Like most other Serbs, Mihailovich had been pro-Russian in the long-standing Balkan struggle between Teuton and Slav...
...some of the Rightists are anti-Axis, too, and approve Foreign Minister Ernesto Barros Jarpa's recent cautious statement that Chile is "non-belligerent" on the side of the U.S. What all Rightists chiefly want is to see internal splits healed along strongman. Rightist lines. And cold, hawk-nosed President Rios looked like their...