Word: straws
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...late Edsel Ford. Sorensen is still a director, still vice president in charge of production. Sorensen has had the only production seat on the board. Now he must share that chair with Rausch, close friend of Bennett. After the first board meeting came the first short but significant straw. Razzle-dazzler Steve Hannagan, whose hiring as press agent a year ago was approved by Sorensen, but never by Bennett, was fired forthwith...
Harvard's commencement was cut from a five-to a one-day celebration. Missing from the head of the academic procession for the first time in more than 30 years was the late President Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell (TIME. Jan. 18). Missing, too, was the beribboned straw which, for an epoch, crowned the commencement head of John Pierpont Morgan '89. Gone was the traditional confetti battle between the seniors and their relatives and friends in Soldiers' Field. Gone was the reunion parade with its florid costumes, and the baseball game with Yale. No class tents were pitched...
...only immediate loophole was suggested last week by a city attorney: perhaps, since all the lines were in receivership in Federal Court, the State Commission had no jurisdiction. The receivership judge, Michael L. Igoe, clutched at this straw. Said he: "If the Commerce Commission has no jurisdiction, and you can prove it to me, no one will be happier than this Court...
...there was a moment when a big red positive ion tried to grab me and I thought I'd never get away. When I got out of that, I got stuck in a condenser, and I was afraid I was going to get discharged. It would be the last straw to lost your job after going through all that...
...there were some guests whom Sheean was able to stomach. There was Winston Churchill, who "first became visible" to Sheean "in a red bathrobe over bathing trunks; he wore a large, flopping straw hat, and slippers and a cherubic grin." His first words were: "My dear Maxine, you have no idea how easy it is to travel without a servant. I came here all the way from London alone and it was quite simple." Said Maxine: "Winston, how brave of you!" Churchill spent much of his time painting. "In such a society [he] was slightly out of place...