Word: ments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made it a rule (which he still follows) to insure their privacy, by opening his own mail every morning. He avoided church politics like the plague, and his solid middle ground on all issues often seems to him like a kind of orneryness. "I always react against my environ ment," he says. "When I'm with an extreme Protestant, I tend to be more Catholic than normally; when I'm talking to an Anglo-Catholic, I begin to sound like a Protestant...
...McGraw, 70 years old, was taking a less active part in the company, and Strike was president. For his wartime job of building close to $175 million in war plants and bases, Engineer Strike became so well known that the War Depart ment sent him to Europe to supervise the rebuilding of German industry and the housing of some 4,000,000 homeless Germans. He did a bang-up job, and the Government sent him to Japan on a similar task. Later he became president of Overseas Consultants Inc., an eleven-firm, nonprofit combine which mapped out a $650 million...
Following the lead of Eliot House Grille, a late grille has been built into second floor of the new Harkness Commons building for benefit of center-dwellers don't care to hike to Square. As an added ment, the grille serves varieties of sandwich, including the biggest hamburger town, for 30 cents...
Meanwhile, Hsia Tou-yin, warlord of Wu's native Hupeh province, had given Wu a job as tax collector. Wu went to work in Hankow, "the Chicago of China," and within six months had balanced Hankow's municipal budget. This achieve ment attracted Chiang Kai-shek's interested attention. In 1932 Chiang appointed the 28-year-old Wu mayor of Hankow...
...Well," said the tired gentleman, "One of you folks done broke the law by not filing your census blank with the guv'ment...