Word: vincente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Said Vincent Jacobi, business manager of Theatrical Protective Union No. 1: "The out-of-town people see 'Follies' and they don't know what it is. But if they see 'Burlesque' then they know what it's all about." Echoed Harold Minsky, whose celebrated surname (made famous by his father and uncles), synonymous with burlesque, is also barred from Manhattan marquees: "Once they come in they enjoy it all right, but you'd be surprised how many people in New York don't know what you're selling...
...Packard is no newcomer to the high-powered engine business. In 1917, tall, brusque, brilliant Colonel Jesse Gurney Vincent, Packard's chief of engineering and designer of its famed Twin Six, went to Washington with the original blueprints of the famed Liberty engine in his grip. There Colonel Vincent went into a huddle with a California aircraftsman named Colonel E. J. Hall. Five days later they came out with an improved design. Before the war's end Packard delivered 6,500 Liberties to the belligerents...
During 50 years at sea the Doctor fought, or rather butchered, at Cape Saint Vincent, Copenhagen, Trafalgar, Rochefort and many another action, most of which he was moved to describe in the course of telling about his leg. He sailed for prizes from the West Indies station during the American Revolution, he shipped on a slaver, he was captured by the Mounseers (on that occasion contriving to be the only man ever guillotined at the knee). His modest knowledge of physic was of assistance to the great Franklin, the great Linnaeus, and Catherine the Great, who conceived a dangerous gratitude...
...consultants to Railroader Ralph Budd, Defense Advisory Commissioner in charge of transportation, went A. T. Wood, president of Lake Carriers Association; Edward Vincent Rodgers, president of American Trucking Association; Frederick C. Homer, assistant to the chairman of General Motors; Arthur Middleton Hill, president of National Association of Motor Bus Operators and Atlantic Greyhound Corp...
This week to Washington went Princetonman James Vincent Forrestal, after turning in his resignation as president of the top-flight Wall Street investment house of Dillon, Read & Co. His new job: No. 4 of Franklin D. Roosevelt's $10,000-a-year administrative assistants "with a passion for anonymity." In the reforming New Deal of 1939, Wall Streeter Forrestal's appointment would have set alienists to wondering. In the war-defense New Deal of 1940's summer it got only passing notice. For against the possibility of war, Franklin Roosevelt's draft on business was already...