Word: membered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swearing," she founded the Pure Language League, tried to get fellow staffers to sign pledges against cussing. Even in death Miss McDowell carried on her good fight. Her will, probated last week, left about $3,000 to the New York Newspaper Guild (of which she was not a member) to perpetuate the Pure Language League by distributing pamphlets. Said the Guild's Executive Vice President Tom Murphy: "Well, we've got the money, but I don't know what the hell we're going to do with...
During his last trip to his native Russia in 1946, Waksman was treated royally by the Russians and made a member of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R. With this honor went a 15,000-ruble prize, but Waksman could not take the money out of Russia. So he bought a rather formidable painting of a north Russian landscape by Beruleia-Berulia, which now hangs in the living room. The firmly fixed price was 18,000 rubles, but the Russians agreed to knock off 3,000 rubles if allowed to keep the frame...
...second time since he left the White House in 1933, Herbert Hoover last week took on a private business job.* He became a member of the new board of directors of Conrad Hilton's newly purchased Waldorf-Astoria Hotel (TIME, Oct. 17). Hoover, who will receive $30 per board meeting, had an added reason to take the Waldorf job. He lives there...
...many A.B.W. members work for such big-time institutions. Most come from small towns like the A.B.W.'s most prominent ex-member, U.S. Treasurer Clark, once president of a bank in Richland, Kans...
Misty Mourners. In his home state, public opinion on Jesse was often divided, but after he was killed in 1882 by Bob Ford, a reward-seeking member of his gang, many a misty-eyed Missourian mourned him as the last defender of the Confederate cause. Cheers greeted a jury's acquittal of Jesse's Bible-reading brother Frank, who surrendered after Jesse was killed, and "the careers of Governor Crittenden and Prosecutor William Wallace were ruined because of the fight they waged against the Clay County outlaws...