Word: phoenixed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Democratic National Chairman was feeling rotten. Bob Hannegan recently had a lot of teeth pulled. Now he was convalescing in the Arizona Biltmore, in Phoenix, with tender gums and a sore throat. The telephone rang, and added to his sufferings a headache from Washington...
...into business against their old employer, Hearst, in Seattle; they were dickering in Portland with Marshall Field money; Field would stake them in San Diego. Last week the big gossip anticlimaxed into a small fact. Franklin Roosevelt's rangy daughter and her strapping husband had bought the Phoenix (Ariz.) Shopping News, an advertising throwaway. The reported price: $15,000 (theirs, not Field...
...John Boettiger strode into the newsroom of the Phoenix Republic and Gazette, thrust a handout at a reporter. It said that Anna and he would "gradually" develop the newsless shoppers' weekly into a daily paper. It did not say (or need to) that John and Anna hope to break the Republic and Gazette's profitable monopoly. The Republic called itself the Republican until 1930, still talks like one; the Gazette, under the same ownership, is only a little more polite to Democrats. The New Dealing Boettigers obviously hoped to capitalize on one fact of life in Arizona...
Asano, apparently a "joiner" in college (he was a member of Hasty Pudding, Phoenix, Stylus, the Kalumet Club, the OK Society, and the Western Club, among others), rose from a job as a private secretary to a position at the head of the Tsurmi Steel and Shipbuilding Company. He counts banking, trading, water power developing, and the motion picture industry among his other occupations...
...captained the hockey and baseball teams (playing shortstop), was elected president of the student council, joined Hasty Pudding, Phoenix Club and Signet Society, among others. He developed a passion for foreign cars. He owned, in turn, a Mercedes, Voisin, Panhard-Levassor, Hispano-Suiza. After graduation, with only average grades, he put in a short tour of duty in the postwar army. Then his father's friend George Lee gave him a job in his investment banking house of Lee, Higginson...