Word: mc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shoulder the Debts. How much Mc Kinnon paid for the paper was a secret, but newsmen guessed that he got his 83% share of the News stock largely by assuming responsibility for its debts (estimated at between $1,000,000 and $2,000,000), plus about $50,000 in cash. "The amount of money that changed hands," said Publisher McKinnon, who has some $750,000 in cash in the bank and bought the News with his own money, "was not sufficient to endanger my financial position...
...whose honor I venture to quote the words of Hamlet: "He [is] a man, take him for all in all. I shall never look upon his like again." PETER HENRIK HANSEN Copenhagen Sir: Your choice . . . has us sitting on the edges of our chairs. On the one hand, Joe Mc Carthy does not quite measure up to the high standard that you have set. On the other . . . McCarthyism has this year become the world's top anti-American issue ... at home, our idea of a perfect Roman holiday is to sit before a TV set and watch a McCarthy...
...bomber being built under license in the U.S. by Glenn L. Martin Co., landed its second big U.S. hydroelectric contract in a year. The company, which previously won an order for transformers for the Chief Joseph Dam in Washington, underbid four U.S. firms for two generators for the new Mc-Nary Dam on the Columbia River. The bid: $3,651,476, some $600,000 under that of the nearest U.S. competitor, General Electric...
...Those gallant hopes of yesterday have given way to the sorry confusion of today. [They] have been replaced by the four fears-fear of depression; fear of Communism; fear of ourselves; fear, if you please, of freedom itself." Stevenson did not name Senator McCarthy during an obvious attack on Mc-Carthyism, in which, he charged, "the Bill of Rights is besieged, ancient liberties infringed." He did, however, mention Attorney General Herbert Brownell, "the chief law-enforcement officer of the nation, the very embodiment of our concept of justice, [who] has even imputed disloyalty or Communist sympathy to a former President...
...heaming master of ceremonies noisily rapped his fork against a water glass. Round the long luncheon table sat some of the leading lights in the Chicago business world. The meal had been good, quite good. Leisurely they chatted and un-wrapped expensive Havanas. The MC grew slightly irritated; they quieted. The speaker was introduced in extravagant terms; they applauded, extravagantly. As was usual, they only half listened to the after dinner speech. Half listened, until they heard the words: "...White was known to be a Communist spy by the very people who appointed him to the most sensitive and important...