Word: mayer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Audette's some Mayer of your Keating," said the Sage. "The Renicker-bockers from Nork will surely Lucier: HARVARD 20 COLUMBIA...
...wanted to take things easier. For "Cobbie," who likes to sport a cane and carnation, it was the first letup in 50 years of hustling for Hearst as reporter and editor. Cobbie himself announced the change at a San Francisco banquet for 400, including Governor Earl Warren, Louis B. Mayer, Sam Goldwyn and assorted top Hearst brass, and was given a memento of his San Francisco days. The gift: a cable...
Died. Saly Mayer, 68, Swiss lace manufacturer credited with saving some 200,000 Jews from deportation to Nazi death camps; of a heart attack; in St. Moritz, Switzerland. When the Nazis, in the spring of 1944, offered to trade the lives of Hungary's remaining Jews for 10,000 trucks (plus 800 tons of coffee, 200 tons of tea, 2,000,000 bars of soap), Mayer, representing the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, undertook a protracted bluffing game (the J.D.C. and the U.S. Government agreed that no ransom would be delivered), kept negotiations going until Hitler's regime...
...pool plan for West European coal and steel. The new cabinet included an important new post, which was filled by Paul Reynaud: Minister of State for the Associated States of the French Union and for the Far East. Maurice Petsche was again appointed Finance Minister and Renee Mayer stayed on as the Minister of Justice...
Vadis is a project no U.S. movie company has ever before attempted. After figuring the odds, MGM's Louis B. Mayer anted up $6,000,000, the biggest budget in movie history, and dispatched ace Production Man Henry Henigson to Rome with orders to prepare the ground...