Word: payoff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prize. This time there was to be no slip-up when it came to the payoff. Louis Johnson raised the money for the campaign, when the Democratic Party treasury was at its lowest. It was a great political service and Fund Raiser Johnson knew what he wanted. Harry Truman made a few halfhearted attempts to fob him off with offers of the sub-Cabinet Army secretaryship or the Court of St. James's. But Louis Johnson stood fast. The weekend after his inauguration, President Harry Truman let Louis Johnson know that the prize was his at last...
...Payoff. Last week, the jurors filed in with their verdict. The flustered foreman, Housewife Lillian Sheehan, said: "We find for the defendant," then hastily corrected herself, "I mean the plaintiff...
...payoff came when the prize bull mastiff turned out to be the property of Pete Fuller, last year's wrestling captain. Unfortunately, Pete was called away to Lowell during the show to dispose of a pair of promising young Golden Glove heavyweights. The man he left in charge, however, informed the local press that Mr. Fuller usually called his dog Anne...
...proved so successful that Budd dieselized his entire run as fast as he could plow back earnings (now diesels power 80% of the Q's passenger miles, 50% of its freight). The big diesel payoff came in freight. Because of the easier maintenance of diesels, Budd stepped up the Burlington's freight car mileage to 62.7 miles a day by 1947 (v. a national average of 47.6). And the Burlington's net rose last year to an estimated $28 million...
Athletic Director Bill Bingham '16 altered the letter award system two weeks ago so that members of the winter track team could win a major H by placing in the Yale meet, but the new policy didn't result in much of a payoff at New Haven Saturday. Only ten men scored for the varsity, which took a 77-32 walloping in Yale's Coxe Cage...