Word: pratt
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Russian Delegate Andrei Gromyko, making his second appearance since his walkout, was particularly gay. The Soviet Purchasing Commission had just bought the $1 million Long Island estate pf deceased capitalist George Dupont Pratt for a reported $120,000 (see INTERNATIONAL) . He himself had received a box of flowers from an admirer who wrote "God bless you and Uncle Joe" and signed himself "Rock-ribbed Republican." The scenery was nice too. Gromyko even accepted a light from a reporter for the Russophobe Chicago Tribune...
About the time Communist Karl Marx finished writing Das Kapital, Capitalist Charles Pratt began selling "Pratt's Astral Oil." A high-grade lamp fuel, refined in Brooklyn from Pennsylvania petroleum, it became world-famed. Until Edison made his improvement, no one could read the Communist Manifesto, or anything else, under a mellower light. Onetime grocery clerk Pratt eventually joined up in Standard Oil with onetime bookkeeper Rockefeller. When he died in 1891, Pratt was Brooklyn's richest citizen, a solid, sharp-faced, goateed, philanthropic Baptist. To his six sons and two daughters he left an 800-acre estate...
...Fletcher Pratt performed a public service when he exposed the Army and Navy's fraudulent press relations and censorship practices [TIME, Feb. 11] during World War II. . . . Actually, the Navy has no concept of public relations. One Annapolis arrogant thought [the term] meant kinfolk on charity...
Toward the end of the war, Pratt said, the Navy had begun to improve itself, but "the Army clung throughout to [Major] General [Alexander] Surles, retired, who . . . simply lacked the background to be anything more than one of the glorified lackeys the Army system produced...
...Pratt's bitter conclusion: "The official censors have pretty well succeeded in putting over the legend that the war was won without a single mistake, by a command consisting exclusively of geniuses, who now have asked to be rewarded by being placed in control of all scientific thought and utterance...