Word: trumps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...WBAL continuity writer named Vera Johnson. Feature of Quiz the Scientist is its formidable permanent board, which includes such lights as Dr. Robert Williams Wood, famed prankster physicist of Johns Hopkins University (TIME, June 20, 1938), Dr. Louise Kelley, Professor of Chemistry at Goucher College, Dr. Reginald Van Trump Truitt, Professor of Zoology at University of Maryland, and Dr. Page. Last week WBAL was hopeful that inquiries from NBC would result in a network spot for the quiz...
...suicidal. Attempted cession of the fleet to Germany would as likely as not result in its scuttling by its own officers. German occupation of the rest of France would mean that French colonies, deprived of a homeland, would drop like plums into British hands; France's one powerful trump card is negative-when German conditions press too hard, she can always threaten to throw up the sponge...
...tough, profane, horny-handed labor boss is James Caesar ("Mussolini") Petrillo, head of the Chicago local of the American Federation of Musicians. The only instrument he ever played was the trumpet. But poorly as he played it, Petrillo's trump has sounded like Gabriel's to many an employer of musicians. No one has fought more fiercely than Petrillo against canned music in theatres, dance halls, on the radio. By forbidding men of his local to make records which might be broadcast, he led a successful nationwide fight to get more musicians employed by broadcasters. Grateful...
...English did not know what to do with the Prince, they knew still less what to do with the Princess, whose high spirits, admired by Lord Byron, became hoydenish and pathetic with middle age. Prinney tried and failed to trump up enough scandal about Caroline to get a divorce. Caroline sailed off to Italy and behaved outrageously but always just within the law. When Prinney became King in 1820 he had her name struck from the Prayer Book. She returned to London to fight...
Germany, the third partner in the game, had played her last trump three weeks before when her economic expert and premier promiser Dr. Karl Clodius arrived on the Italian scene just in time to scotch an Anglo-Italian cannons-and-airplane-engines-for-coal deal. Now, having maintained that a neutral that submits to British control is no longer a neutral and is fair game for Nazi submarines and bombers, Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop realized that a ticklish situation was bound to arise if the Axis partner were compelled to knuckle down to British seapower. As though to lend...