Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...become recording secretary of the Teamsters' Local 174 in 1921. His salary: $2 a month. During those early years, he was senior to and far overshadowed a turnip-shaped young Seattle Teamster named Dave Beck. "Frank had the interests of the working stiff at heart," recalls a Teamster veteran. "He'd put his neck on the line any time to sign up a new member, while Dave was making speeches at union meetings." But in 1925, when the Teamsters held their national convention in Seattle, it was Speechmaker Beck who caught the favor of International President Dan Tobin...
...social lioness. Instead, in her first TV biography, The Hostess with the Mostes', Party Girl Perle was caught in a clicheé-ridden gusher that coated with crude her life as oil and machine tools heiress, society matriarch, diplomatic envoy and social worker. Young Evelyn Rudie and veteran Shirley Booth wrestled hopelessly with Perle's hoked-up TV life: her eighth birthday party to which no one came ("I'll show them. When I grow up I'll give a party where the mostes' people in the whole world come!"); the social errors in Pittsburgh...
...trip will give him his first good line on battery strength, and his pitchers and catchers are the big questions on this year's team. Of his hurlers, only Dom Repetto has had much past experience, and the other moundsmen wil have to come through if the team's veteran strength elsewhere is to bring a successful season. A replacement must also be found for last year's catcher, Bing Crosby...
...time record number of candidates (total to date: 150) are running for 54 jobs. But last week, when veteran Court house Reporter Haig Anlian, 38, asked for a twelve-week leave from his $104-a-week newspaper job to work as a candidate's pressagent for $300 a week. Journal Editor Paul A. Tierney refused. "I won't stand for a wholesale raid on my staff," snapped Tierney, 62, who transferred from Newhouse's Long Island Star-Journal to the Jersey Journal only eight months...
What many veterans do not know is that they are already paying at least the equivalent of 5% interest. Most moneylenders who accept VA loans do so only at considerable discount in order to offset the 4½% rate. Builders pass on this hidden charge to veterans by inflating the cost of the house. And by preventing the veteran from building earlier, the VA's low rate has actually cost him extra money. Industry sources, for example, expect house prices to average about 3% higher this spring than last...