Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bernard Schwartz was far from ready to return to his academic ivory tower. No sooner was he fired than he consulted with two of his favorite newsmen, the Des Moines Register's Clark Mollenhoff and a Drew Pearson legman named Jack Anderson. Off marched Schwartz and Mollenhoff, with a suitcase and two cardboard boxes full of subcommittee documents, to the Mayflower Hotel suite of Delaware's investigations-minded Republican Senator John Williams. Williams recognized that the papers had, in effect, been pilfered from a subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives, turned Schwartz and Mollenhoff back into...
That could hardly have worried Harold Stassen less: he was already hard at work hammering tenpenny nails into his political platform. His first plank: "There should be a summit conference-the sooner the better...
...president of the Prudential Insurance Co., second biggest in the U.S. (first: Metropolitan Life). Said Insuranceman Shanks: "I'm optimistic. We're pretty close to the end of the downgrade, and we should see an upturn before long. Steel production will start up in March, if not sooner, because steel sales have been running ahead of production; so will textile production and most durable goods for the same reason." What's more, said Shanks, the stock market will go up also. "I am personally going to put any money I have available into stocks because...
...sooner was his father settled on the farm than Willie got another big break. One of the horses trained by Junie Corbin was found to be doped, and according to racing law, the trainer took the rap. Junie needed money badly, and the most valuable property he owned was Hartack's contract. Willie's services were sold to Mrs. Ada L. Rice...
Sorry Mess. No sooner had Major Robert Anderson, U.S.A., arrived to take command at Fort Moultrie, one of the four federal forts in and around Charleston harbor, late in November 1860, than he saw that it could be successfully invaded by a herd of cows; indeed, a wandering Guernsey now and again did enter the fort by crossing the sand dunes heaped wall-high at several points. Anderson recognized Fort Sumter, then unoccupied, as stronger than Moultrie. He urged that it be garrisoned-in a message to the War Department that is as meaningful to 1958 as to 1860: "Nothing...