Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Left & Right. The whole board, businessmen grumbled, had a decidedly pro-union cast. As businessmen saw it, Murdock would join ex-Kansas Congressman John M. Houston away over on the left; Gray would join young, earnest Chairman Paul M. Herzog, protege of New York's Senator Robert F. Wagner, a little to the left. Only Old Member James J. Reynolds Jr., brother of beefy Newsman Quentin Reynolds, would be on the right...
...tall, whip-smart young Jesuit named Father Hernan Benitez saw to it that Eva Perén's visit to Paris was the works. He showed up in the French capital ahead of time, quickly signed up the big shots for dinners and receptions, arranged a sightseeing schedule that omitted few historical monuments. But Father Benitez, who is both Evita's chaperon and confessor, could do nothing about the weather. The weather was cruel...
...howling subjects milled so thickly about the theater entrance that she had to slip in by the stage door. Her Ministers of Publicity then hustled her out front to meet some courtiers: Anthony Eden, who looked pleasantly unimpressed, and U.S. Ambassador Lewis Douglas, who seemed to like what he saw. Then Rita was enthroned beside the Duchess of Gloucester, sister-in-law of King George VI, to watch the show...
...dumping buckets of water on their heads. In efficient Belgium, fire hoses were used. As the tour approached a town, police immobilized all traffic in the vicinity. Factories shut down. In Strasbourg, the Communist Par ty temporarily suspended its congress. Something like ten million people along the route saw the race...
...late Colonel Frank Knox quartered the Sun in his spacious Daily News plant, let it use his presses at night and was nice about the rent. Hardheaded John S. Knight later took over the Daily News, but not its feuds. He played footie with McCormick; and as a landlord saw no reason to charge the Sun less than the traffic would bear. Last year he tripled Field's $353,000-a-year rent...