Word: plumps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After eight months of noisily stirring the Republican Party into world-consciousness, the Chicago-born Republican Postwar Policy Association last week as noisily closed its doors. Out separate exits walked Publicity Director Leo Casey, to plump for Wendell Willkie for President, and Founder Deneen A. Watson, to stump for Eric A. Johnston for President...
Barbara Hazel Guggenheim McKinley, plump 40-year-old heiress to many of the Guggenheim copper millions, was wedded, in Denver, for the third time-this time to a former body-builder and dance enthusiast, 28-year-old Corporal Larry Leonard. He signed a contract rejecting in advance any share in her wealth. The bride said her eleven and nine-year-old son and daughter "wrote him a letter and asked him to marry...
...After almost reaching the U.S. position walked plump into a Nazi machine gunner, wide awake and ready for business...
...Last fortnight the Soviet Union set up a five-man committee to direct the rehabilitation of the regained soil; ordered the return of 571,500 head of evacuated cattle, horses, sheep. The committee's head is plump Georgi Malenkov, one of Stalin's ablest trouble shooters. Among the members is the professorial-looking Georgian, Lavrenti Beria, chief of NKVD (formerly OGPU...
Editor today, and largely responsible for the Economist's prestige, is plump, affable Geoffrey Crowther, 36, who studied at Cambridge, at Yale on a Commonwealth Fund Fellowship (Rhodes scholarship in reverse), then at New York's Columbia University. In the U.S. he acquired, besides an education, a wife. He worked in Wall Street (as a messenger for J. W. Seligman Co.), returned to London in 1932 to join the Economist. He became editor in 1938, when...