Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week, zestful, movie-handsome Ernest Robert Breech got the grandest birthday present of his life: the presidency of crucial Bendix Aviation Corp., a 19%-controlled General Motors affiliate. To take the job, Breech quit as G.M. vice president in charge of household appliances and aviation. At Bendix, Founder Vincent Bendix, 60, moved upstairs to board chairman...
...Vincent Astor, 50, millionaire yachting companion of President Roosevelt, went on active duty as a full commander in the Third Naval District (around New York City). The Navy said his duties were secret...
Convicted of "conspiracy to advocate the overthrow of the government by force," and sentenced to 16 months in jail, Vincent R. Dunne has arrived in Cambridge to challenge the constitutionality of the act under which he and 17 others were prosecuted in the Minneapolis Sedition trial last November...
...Francisco, Federal men haled Newsman Frederick Vincent ("Wiggy") Williams, Publisher David Warren Ryder into court. In Lake Geneva, Wis., they found sleek Ralph Townsend, onetime U.S. consular aide in China, a contributor to Scribner's Commentator, mouthpiece-until Pearl Harbor-of rabid isolationists in the U.S. (TIME, Nov. 17). The three were accused of writing and distributing Japanese propaganda without registering as Jap agents...
...Stephen Vincent Benet's "The Devil and Daniel Webster" won the Saturday Evening Post short story contest a couple of years ago. Now the whimsical story of Faust in New Hampshire has been made into a movie. "All That Money Can Buy" seems well on its way to winning an equally conspicuous niche in moviedom's hall of fame...