Word: list
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rest of the week was the same-nothing earthshaking, but everything brisk. The President named State Department Careerist Maxwell M. Hamilton to be Minister to Finland. He saw a long list of visitors, assured a group of Democratic and Republican women that he favors the equal-rights Constitutional amendment. Now for the outing...
...considerable might of his clerical robes, his glittering pectoral cross and pastoral staff, using them not as shelters but as shields. He saved hundreds of Jewish lives by encouraging Orthodox Greeks to harbor them. He achieved undying fame by substituting his name and those of his bishops for a list of hostages about to be shot for the death of a German soldier. If the Germans had not backed down, Damaskinos would have been the first to be shot. He had put his name at the head of the list...
Industrially, too, the atomic bomb may save more money than it cost ($2,000,-000,000). A. L. Baker of the Kellex Corp. of Oak Ridge (code name: Dogpatch), Tenn. last week issued an impressive list of non-atomic advances made while the bomb was in production. Among them...
Ross holds his own daily conference with reporters and provides a list of the day's appointments, bills and orders signed. Exasperated newsmen who try to pry out White House copy get the stock Ross answer: "I don't know." For this uncooperative attitude on "personality stuff" about the President newsmen blame Charlie Ross, not his boss...
Glad to assist, the Emergency Council picked Edward Gold; the choice was accepted by the Spec staff, which then drew up a slate of Managing Board editors to serve under Gold and presented the list, as a matter of form, to the Council for its approval...