Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was an uneasy stir in the committee room. Did he intend to sell the stock? No, said Erwin Wilson. If he sold, he would have to pay a big capital-gains tax (estimates ranged up to several hundred thousand). Some of the Senators pointed out that the U.S. law is clear on the point involved: no officer of the Government may transact business with any firm in which he has a financial interest. General Motors is the Defense Department's biggest supplier, holds approximately 7.8% of the dollar volume of all the department's contracts. Wilson seemed...
Dertinger is not likely to stir up much sympathy. A Prussian cadet, then a newspaperman, he became a jackbooted member of the jackbooted Stahlhelm (steel helmet) organization before Hitler came to power. After the war, though apparently not a Communist, he became their stooge, useful at keeping his fellow Roman Catholics in line. He was rewarded by a visit to Moscow for Stalin's birthday in 1950, a high Polish decoration only last month for having signed away to Poland all German territory east of the Oder-Neisse rivers, and a congratulatory telegram only a few weeks ago from...
Many Chicagoans thought Ryerson was giving a gentle hint to his fellow bank director, Montgomery Ward's 79-year-old Chairman Sewell Avery. If so, the dig did not bother Avery, but it did stir up an argument among other elderly Chicago business leaders. Said Wilson & Co.'s 84-year-old Chairman Thomas E. Wilson: "I suppose if a 66-year-old man thinks he is old, that's his opinion. Personally, I think it is much too young to retire." Snorted 86-year-old Real Estate Man John E. Scully: "Better wear out than rust...
...able to shop or visit a museum without drawing crowds. If she wishes to attend the theater, any manager in Washington will keep her intentions secret, smuggle her into a seat just before the curtain, and get her out ahead of the crowd. But she will always create a stir. The Secret Service guards, who took her under surveillance when Ike was nominated, will be omnipresent-they will lurk in the next room even if she is lunching at the home of an old friend. She will seldom be out of the news. If she buys a dog, spanks...
...Harvard Band, and with it the annual Yale rally, screeched to a halt in the Yard last night, when the Cambridge police put a last minute brake on plans for a parade through the Square. Fearing that the newly-planned route might stir up a disturbance and hold up traffic for an hour or six, as has happened so often in recent years, the police had the Band running around in circles in the Yard until it finally settled down on the Widener steps. Then, there was cheering, singing, and general carousing. The Band played the usuals and added "Where...