Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York City's Acting Mayor Vincent R. Impellitteri presented to the U.N.'s big, bluff Secretary General Trygve Lie an enormous gilt key to the New York City building on the Fairgrounds. ¶ Mr. Impellitteri and Park Commissioner Robert Moses also made a formal offer to give the U.N. the 350 acres of Flushing Meadow Park, if the U.N. would choose it as a permanent site. Nourished in the bosom of an urban community, the New York officials believed, the U.N. would find 350 acres enough. ¶Since the U.N. will remain in the New York area...
...TIME's Religion researcher, for carelessness with facts & figures, a resounding rebuke. Thriving St. Vincent's actually has 242 priests, seminarists and lay brothers in its monastic community. It is the number of lay brothers that has dwindled from...
...astonishment of Lawyer Bumpus and almost everyone else, from Lawrenceburg to Mink Slide, the jurors took their oath seriously. Correspondent Vincent Sheean, who had covered the trial with mild hysteria, called the jury's action "the kind of thing that makes us realize the full splendor of our destiny as a nation...
...bolted from their seats toward the speaker in a menacing fashion, shouting insults as they came. Algerian followers of Abbas got ready to join the seemingly inevitable melee as the siren in the corridors shrilled to evacuate the press and public galleries. But, to the obvious relief of President Vincent Auriol, a small army of quickwitted ushers surrounded the menaced speaker and restored order by coaxing Abbas off toward the Communist benches, which greeted him with feeble applause...
Zeckendorf took over the management of Vincent Astor's realty interests, swelled their value in a series of 150 transactions by about $5 million (with commissions to W. & K. totaling $1½ million...