Word: hounding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foundations of the present Greyhound Corporation. They kept on buying up other lines out of profits, kept their former owners to run them. When their cash dwindled, a Minneapolis banker, Glenn Wood Traer, joined forces with them. He persuaded railroads to hedge their own futures by investing in "the Hound...
...into Elephant. Though the Hound is already elephant-sized, President Orville Caesar, 54, plans to keep it right on growing. As Wickman is chairman of the board of directors, most of the Hound's care and feeding is up to Caesar. He now has in the works a $20 million project for new terminals, at New York, Chicago and San Francisco, along with garages, restaurants and comfort stations...
...struck a new low in American idealism. TIME'S forthright report of it, "Nothing Personal" [Feb. 17), is to be commended. . . . To find a group of "white Caucasians" (both conditions a pure accident of birth), holier-than-thou, Nazi-principled bigots going far out of their way to hound a single family, of admittedly good reputation, into court for the purpose of driving them out of their home, is a vicious blight to our hope for the future...
Also in the books is the publication of a semi-yearly art magazine tentatively bearing the title, The Harvard Art Journal. With this entry in the field of University publications, the place occupied by the long defunct Hound and Horn magazine will be filled...
When the Dial succumbed in 1929, its function had already been taken up by the Hound and Horn, founded by Lincoln Kirstein. Narrower in taste than the Dial, it printed avant-garde work of high standards. Its Henry James issue, near the end of its career in 1934, led the way to what had become ten years later almost a popular revival of the great novelist...