Word: sidney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Douglas Horton, whose wife, the former Mildred McAfee, commanding officer of the WAVES during the war, retires this week after 14 years as president of Wellesley. Headquarters of the worldwide group will be in London. There, council affairs will be administered by Britain's genial Dr. Sidney M. Berry, whose new job as secretary of the organization carries a salary of $4,000 a year...
Gerald Richmond of 134 Devon St., Dorchester; Boston Public Latin. Paul B. Rosenberg of 30 Claflin Rd., Brookline; Brookline High. David Sabsay of 81 Russell St., Waltham; Waltham High. Sidney Shapire of 73 Phillips St., Boston; Boston Public Latin. Edward L. Snow of 53 Clark Rd., Revere; Revere High. Thomas Sobel of 26 Cornanba St., Roslindale; Boston Public Latin...
Other public figures were branded as Communist sympathizers. Among them were March's wife, Florence Eldridge, Boston University President Daniel L. Marsh, Radio Writer Norman Corwin and Cinema Stars Edward G. Robinson, Sylvia Sidney, Paul Muni, John Garfield and Melvyn Douglas, husband of California's Democratic Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas. Outraged and vehement denials and sardonic evasions flew from coast to coast...
...Golden Greek." Beginning as an immigrant dishwasher in New York, Helis hit it rich in California and Louisiana oil. Helis was the biggest money backer of Earl Long. In 1939 he was involved in the "hot-oil" scandals with New Orleans' former mayor and Huey Long henchman, Robert Sidney Maestri. Helis is a one-man lobby for Greece (he is a supporter of the royalist faction), once owned drilling concessions for the entire nation. He keeps a racing stable in New Jersey. During the war, he turned his yacht over to the Government. General MacArthur's command used...
Background Material. In Manhattan, when Waiter George Tucker was fired because his boss thought that Tucker's urge to write a novel might possibly embarrass patrons, New York State Mediation Board Arbitrator Sidney A. Wolff handed down the ruling for his reinstatement: "To deny a would-be author employment . . . might well stifle literary and creative genius...