Word: platee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...occasion was a $100-a-plate benefit dinner for the Salvation Army. As a big contributor, Frankie had been appointed one of 123 vice chairmen of the Army's current fund-raising drive. The invitations were clearly inscribed "sponsored by Frank Costello," and Frankie hoped people would come. They...
LYNNE L. WHITE, 59, moved up from executive vice president to president of the N.Y., Chicago & St. Louis Railroad (Nickel Plate). Groomed for the job by his predecessor and old friend, the late John W. Davin, White is an up-from-office-boy railroad veteran of 44 years, who had been vice president of three other roads before joining the Nickel Plate six months ago. In 1948, the Nickel Plate's first independent year after separation from the Chesapeake & Ohio, he helped President Davin pile up a gross of $109 million and net of $15 million, greatest...
...light on ex-Senator Joe Ball's telephone flashed with an incoming call one day last week but there was no answer. Joe Ball's old Senate office was empty; the name plate had been taken off the door, and Joe was gone. So were a lot of other Republicans. All around the vaulted, marble buildings on top of Capitol Hill the Democrats were moving...
Prospector. In Superior, Wis., Ernest Smith pleaded guilty to stealing his ex-wife's dentures and selling the gold in the upper plate...
...business and social highlights of Hollywood last week had very little flavor of hard times. At the huge testimonial dinner ($15 a plate) naming Darryl Zanuck "Man of the Year," there was no noticeable scarcity of mutation mink and diamonds among the 1,500 diners. The only damp spot in this glittering evening was the five minutes during which Georgia's Ellis Arnall got off to a belligerent start as president of the Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers. He scolded Eric Johnston and brashly challenged him to a debate on monopolies and the movies; he proposed that misbehaving...