Word: kept
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...witness stand, he invited the committee to ask some 30 prominent scientists and industrialists what they thought of AEC. The joint committee itself, he said, had enough information to determine whether the program had been "incredibly mismanaged." He had told them everything they had wanted to know. He had kept no secrets from them, with one major exception: the number of bombs in the stockpile, withheld at the committee's own jittery request. Last session, AEC had sent the committee 100 letters and met with it 25 times. There were almost daily discussions between staffs of the committee...
...Carroll Cone, an assistant vice president of Pan American Airways. A dedicated Democrat from Arkansas, Cone corralled money even from Dixiecrat & Republican friends, kept up good relations for Pan Am on the Democratic side of the fence. Cone gave $3,000 himself, collected $300,000 and had a hand in bringing the trainmen's A. F. Whitney backing into the Truman roundhouse...
Embarrassing questions kept following them. In December Rita's divorce from Orson became final; two weeks later, in New York, she hustled aboard the Britannic with her daughter Rebecca, 4, firmly in tow. Aly Khan was also aboard. Mother & daughter spent Christmas at Aly's County Kildare estate near Dublin. From Ireland, Rita and Rebecca went via London to Switzerland, where they visited with Aly and his two sons, Karim Aga, 12, and Amyon Mohammed, 11. After two weeks of skiing, the party pulled up again on the Riviera. There the engagement was announced, two months before...
...When the Bursar's Office was opened Tuesday morning, it was found that it had been entered by thieves during the night and the small safe in which the petty, cash was kept had been blown open. Owing to the fact that practically all of the money taken in during the day in tuition fees was, according to the custom, deposited in the bank before night, the thieves got only $378.67 in cash, plus $300 worth of Liberty Bonds...
Besides its official visitors, the Clinic also has unofficial ones. One was a little old lady who came in and demanded a Certificate of Good Conduct. She explained that the Devil kept accusing her of being sinful, that she wasn't, and that she wanted something she could show him to prove it. The Clinic obligingly manufactured a certificate. It evidently satisfied the Devil, because the little old lady hasn't been back since...