Word: penned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reserve Board leaned in the opposite direction, convinced that the boom was still picking up speed so fast that it might get out of hand. Last week the Federal Reserve governors decided it was time to put more checks on credit and industrial expansion. With a flourish of his pen FRB Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. okayed, for the fifth time in a year, an increase in the discount rate for eleven of FRB's twelve district banks, thus making it more expensive to borrow money...
...Princeton University, the American Whig-Cliosophic Society, undergraduate debating group, announced that ex-State Department Employee Alger Hiss will speak to the society late this month on "The Meaning of Geneva." It will be Hiss's first public address since he got out of a federal pen in 1954, after serving three years and eight months of a five-year sentence for perjury about his role as a Red agent in the State Department...
...seeing his father brought home bleeding from skirmishes with power-hungry elements in the garment trade. In his 14 years of turning out a labor column, now distributed by the Hall Syndicate to the New York Daily Mirror and 192 other newspapers, he has aimed the acid of his pen consistently at Communism, racketeering and racial bias in U.S. unions. His words have often been as hard as his father's fists. Typical opening jab: "For March, my private crook-of-the-month club award goes to Joe Fay [of the Operating Engineers Union], extortionist emeritus of the mobs...
...Pitcher?" When he brought in an amateur at the top, Yaleman Eugene Meyer was following his own pattern. He had never dipped a pen into journalism until he was 57. By then he had succeeded in two other careers. As a financier, he multiplied the real estate and banking fortune built by his father, who came to the U.S. from Alsace. As a Government administrator-governor of the Federal Reserve Board, first chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corp., etc.-he served under every President from Wilson to F.D.R. He wanted the Post not only for the role it would give...
Penmanship. In Youngstown, Ohio, awaiting trial on two counts of forgery, Lorene Montgomery gave city detectives a demonstration of her craft, wrote two clearly legible signatures at once while holding one fountain pen in her mouth, another in the crook...