Word: marcus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suit seems academic for the present because none of the com pany's foreign agreements in which the Justice Department is most interested are operative as long as the war lasts. Finally, burden of defending the suit will probably fall hardest on the busiest man in Bendix, Charles Marcus, vire president in charge of engineering, who only recently returned from England armed with new ideas for improving the company's equipment. According to the company: "These must all be neglected while Mr. Marcus defends himself and the company for the second time in an anti-trust proceeding...
...other major U.S. actions (so far as known) have all been naval or air encounters in the Far East, and all substantially successful. One group of these: task-force operations, the brilliant raids led by Vice Admiral Halsey on the Marshall and Gilbert Islands, on Wake and Marcus. Others were miscellaneous actions such as that in which Lieut, (now Lieut. Commander) O'Hare shot down five Jap bombers when a U.S. task force was itself under attack...
...Newscaster Marcus handed in his resignation, had it handed right back...
Announcer on the impromptu show was Les Marcus, a long, lean, droopy-eyed newscaster. After reciting the day's results in the majors, Marcus declared he had seen "a very unsportsmanlike exhibition" a few minutes before. As he worked on his script, he said, he heard a commotion in the street. Rushing out, Marcus said he saw Cop No. 590 cuffing one of two unruly drunks he had arrested...
...Marcus thought "the people should know." He angrily corralled some of the spectators and took them with him to the microphone. These men from the street backed Marcus' charges of unnecessary roughness, differed only on how many times the drunk had been knocked down. When the last guest had had his say, Marcus slung his final scallion: "Onions...