Word: vesting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That decided him. Breathing fire, he leaped into the race for the governorship, tirelessly stumped the state in a piped vest and his "crapshooters coat" (tight, double-breasted grey, with black cuff & collar bindings and pearl buttons). His platform: a thorough statewide house cleaning...
...choices. Many a Senator has told his own rags-to-riches success story. Many have chatted about their work in Congress, tried to make it more understandable. And most address their breakfast mike with a speaker's pose, lean back and stroke their napkins as though smoothing a vest in the halls of Congress...
...powerful science-in-government element that has Washington more or less in awe. It was only logical that Secretary of State Byrnes should take him to Moscow as technical adviser. At the meetings Molotov's lumbering attempts to be gay about the "bomb that Dr. Conant carries in his vest pocket" brought an open apology from Stalin. It is evident that the Kremlin is not taking lightly this new influence on American affairs. The Russian experience may be only the first of many encounters that this product of Puritan stock will have with the earthy give and take of modern...
...debate raged on. At week's end the State Department issued the Acheson report (see INTERNATIONAL) which would eventually vest primary control in UNO. Senators were in a tailspin. Hastily they withdrew into their chambers to think it all over again, while Mr. Vandenberg buckled down to write another amendment defining the functions of the military...
Schoenberner's first job was with the Musa Press-a big publishing house owned by an eccentric millionaire who also had aa interest in a vest-pocket calculating machine. Then young Schoenberner became the Sitzredakteur (Sitting Editor) of the Munich Auslandspost, an unpopular job which meant chiefly that if the owner fell foul of the law, Schoenberner had the privilege of sitting in prison for him. From there, Schoenberner advanced to the editorship of Jugend (Youth), a noted humorous-literary weekly in Munich...