Word: plum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rauh who put the Washington Post onto the story. In the belief that a Pulitzer Prize plum had dropped into their laps, top Post executives saw Hughes repeatedly, without seeing through him. Once, when things seemed about to come to a head, Publisher Phil Graham rushed to tell Attorney General Herbert Brownell that the paper might have to call him at any hour of the day or night with a startling story. Graham could not tell him about it, but a baffled Brownell obliged with his night telephone number...
With the arrival of the FIRST SNOW, editors of the CRIMSON will retire to Plum Island to build after igloos and fish in the ocean for lost Christmas parties. They will send dispatches and happy thoughts south three times a week until the BIG THAW on Feb. 1. Distribution...
Another proposal, which CCA members suggest, would make the mayoralty election separate from the Council elections. The voters would elect one mayor and eight Councilmen--not nine potential mayors as at present. The delays and recurring political deals would vanish, and the mayoralty would cease to be a political plum, plucked in back rooms of the Hotel Commander. The qualifications for a mayor, after all, differ from those for a councilman; the separate elections would give the voters the chance to put the right man in the right office, and the city would not be forced to depend so much...
...would think we were back logging again," said drowsy Rachel Adams. Her husband, already wide-awake, routed her from bed, took her by the arm and led her over to a window, through which the first streaks of light could be seen. "Now, Plum," he said, "you see it's the loveliest part...
...Plum. Phillips, a onetime financial reporter, first went to work for Young as financial consultant to Alleghany, helped plan the strategy that won his boss the Central. But barely was the Central bagged before the two fell out. According to Young, Phillips cockily anticipated a prize plum in the new Central setup; when Young instead offered to get him a partnership in a brokerage house, Phillips stalked out. Phillips, however, says he resigned because he considered Young's use of Alleghany funds in the Central fight to be "improper," although he apparently did not reach this decision until after...