Word: sendoff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...business with a chance to do a job in the public interest. But no sooner was his name proposed than lightning began to play around his head. It started when New York Times Columnist Arthur Krock wrote a column which he thought would give his friend Hanes a good sendoff. Wrote Krock: ". . . Holders of these [Associated] assets and liabilities, in a series of informal meetings, decided that their choice for trustee was Mr. Hanes." Came the storm. Senator Norris, a power-trust-blaster from way back, blasted away at the words "informal meetings," deduced they must have included the very...