Word: pearsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winchell's. friend Drew Pearson, a longtime Forrestal enemy, and Pearson's old partner, Robert Allen, joined the chase. Presumably they were aided and abetted by dozens of Washington officeholders who have come to hate Forrestal for his views and his insistence on urging them. They turned their pressure on the White House: the President should demand Forrestal's resignation. When Forrestal did not resign, as they kept predicting that he would, Pearson implied ominously that Forrestal was hanging on to his job so that he could further "the Wall Street conspiracy...
Twenty-five years ago, at the University of Toronto, three history lecturers became fast friends. Two, Lester Bowles Pearson and Hume Wrong, went into Canada's foreign service; George Parkin de Twene-brokes Glazebrook stayed on as a history professor. During the war, Mike Pearson drafted Glazebrook to help him in the Department of External Affairs. Last week Glazebrook was drafted again, to direct Canada's Joint Intelligence Bureau...
...other words, it was a federal handout with no strings attached, and practically everybody was for it. Among its backers were Walter Lippmann, General Eisenhower, Drew Pearson, President Conant, and Walt Disney. But House Speaker Joe Martin thought it would cost too much, and with the assistance of some similarly disposed Representatives, was able to keep the Taft bill from ever reaching the floor of the House...
...Columnist Drew Pearson...
...repay his older and more honest brother (Thomas Gomez) for past favors, he only succeeds in getting the brother caught in the middle of a gang war. To prove fairly conclusively that the racket doesn't really pay, Garfield's passion for a pretty secretary (Beatrice Pearson) comes to a very bad end, and his chief client and business partner eventually gets done...