Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Production-the job of getting armament built-remains under big, silver-topped William H. Harrison, a genial Irishman who talks out of the side of his mouth like a Brooklyn politician. Blue-eyed Bill Harrison started his career climbing telephone poles for $6 a week, worked up to vice president of American Telephone & Telegraph, got into the defense program by sheer accident. One day in 1940 Bill Knudsen, in search of a construction expert for OPM, called A.T. & T. President Walter Gifford, was switched to Harrison because Gifford was out of town. Harrison took the job, moved...
...After silver-haired, handsome Rexford Guy Tugwell took office in Puerto Rico last September as Governor, little was heard of him until last week, when from that much-experimented-on island came roars and rumors of roars...
...Hercules might have told him, a man cannot be too careful about his shirts. No Hercules in any sense, William Dudley Pelley might well have felt last week that he had unwarily donned the shirt of Nessus. Just because he favored silver shirts, Mr. Pelley was handed a couple of years in jail...
...been in Paradise for seven minutes can be expected to pay much attention to the animadversions of a temporal court. William Pelley went on organizing his Silver Shirts, an anti-Jewish, anti-Communist organization. In August 1939 the Dies Committee heard about him, sent him a subpoena. Pelley disappeared. The Superior Court of Asheville ordered him to reappear, on charges of violating his suspended sentence. Wherever he was, in Paradise or simply off the premises, Pelley lay doggo...
...should marry early and have plenty of children. He has three himself. No crony of his faculty or students (says he: "A college president has no friends"), he likes to fish and swap yarns with Yale's Professor Emeritus Billy Phelps. His prime hobby is collecting antique American silver spoons, of which he now has the finest collection in the U.S. At Colgate he often retires to his workshop to hammer spoons himself...