Word: martins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...side, shoppers had to stand in line while customs men opened all packages, weighed the meat, collected ration points and duty. In one day last week 17,500 U.S. shoppers were examined, 1,200 had to surrender 39,000 ration points and $1,400 in duty. U.S. Customs Collector Martin Bradley had to add 15 men to his staff...
...family on which Dr. Richardson reports in most detail included Martin Q, fortyish, "a little man with a pinched expression and a furtive look" who averaged under $20 a week from WPA or Home Relief, his plump, aggressive, somewhat stupid wife, their daughters Agnes, 19, and Catherine...
...Shearn has been moved out, and Connolly is back where he came from-running Hearst's feature and wire services. A new triumvirate, all businessmen, is running the empire: Martin F. Huberth, Richard E. Berlin, John W. Hanes (onetime SECommissioner and Treasury Under Secretary). And once again old Mr. Hearst is the undisputed editor of all his papers and magazines...
...Hands, New Face. Bald, shrewd Martin Huberth, onetime Manhattan real-estate dealer, has managed Hearst's eastern land holdings for 40 years. Dapper Dick Berlin, previously in charge only of Hearst magazines, is another old hand, who first won the friendship of Mrs. Hearst in World War I, when he was a young Naval reservist and she was doing something for the boys. The new face in the triumvirate is ruddy-cheeked, fastidious. North Carolina-born, Yale-trained Banker Hanes, 52, who joined Hearst in 1940. Wall-Streeter Hanes once defined himself as a "financial doctor...
Pablo Picasso got down on his knees to look. What he was looking at was a firmly painted picture of a red brick Riviera villa, at a preview of a Paris exhibition. The charming villa, La Dragonniėre at Cap Martin, rose from a brilliant green meadow dotted with gnarled olive trees. When he had finished looking, Painter Picasso said: "If that man were a painter by profession, he would have no trouble earning a good living." The signature on the canvas: Winston Churchill...