Word: rum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week New England's latest flowering produced a veritable rum blossom. Written in "implacable" 14-hour stretches during a four-month "retirement in the mountains of New Hampshire," Surrealist Painter Salvador Dali's Hidden Faces is the year's tipsiest first novel...
Sterling and his technicians from the Department of Commerce had the peacetime experience of tracking down radio-using rum runners, smugglers, gamblers, practical jokers. Their prime weapon was the Adcock Direction Finder (built and perfected by Sterling and his men), which has a long antenna on a 40-ft. tower and gives the approximate point of origin of any radio signal. RID now has 30-odd Adcocks in the U.S., Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico...
...Constitution," said the new Justice, "is an experiment, as all life is an experiment." Holmes was "like rum to the other judges." But those who feared he would express his broad theories in frequent dissents were disappointed. In the newly begun battle between organized labor and the corporations, Justice Holmes dissented from his colleagues only twice in seven years. In the next five years he delivered two stirring dissents upholding workingmen's right to strike and form picket lines...
...first West Indian Conference of the Anglo-American Caribbean Commission ended last week at Bridgetown, Barbados.* Visiting newsmen feasted on flying fish, yams and rum, were bored. But the delegates representing U.S. and British possessions in the West Indies were enthusiastic about this bold, cooperative attempt to solve the problems of a painfully depressed region...
Died. Horace Victor Myers, 68, retired Jamaica rum magnate (Myers); in Kingston, British West Indies. He played host to thousands of U.S. citizens on Kingston's famed "Sugar Wharf." Died. Senator Charles Linza McNary, 69, Senate Republican leader; after a brain operation; in Fort Lauderdale...