Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tepid. Last week's scheduled debate gave no special promise of being any exception. Less than 48 hours before he was to lead off the discussion, Lester ("Mike") Pearson, Secretary of State for External Affairs, was still in New York, at the United Nations meeting. On his way back to Ottawa he stopped off for the opening of Toronto's Royal Winter Fair. He came into Ottawa on a morning train, having written part of his speech en route; he put the finishing touches to it only a few minutes before Parliament opened...
...way to get rid of the horde of newsmen and their presence was enough to try the patience of any elderly suitor. O'Dwyer was miffed at the press anyway; only one out of the ten New York newspapers had supported the mayor in his campaign. Finally, he blew up and, wagging his pipe, roared: "There's absolutely nothing to the report I'll marry this weekend. It's all a dirty, contemptible carrying-on on the part of the press...
...newsmen, the mayor warned that "either you get out of here this afternoon or I will." While he damned all the hullabaloo as an unreasonable invasion of his privacy, the newsmen thought the mayor's coy conduct a bit unreasonable also; his secret departure had been a sure way to bring the press tallyhoing after him. Said one reporter sourly: "We don't like this business any more than you do. I'd like to get out of here and take in a football game." At that, O'Dwyer tried futilely to get a plane...
...paper with continually parroting the Daily Worker and asking whether it was not "the Red Mouthpiece for the Communist Party in Wisconsin." He cited Evjue's own 1941 accusation that Parker was a Communist and added: "There is nothing in his writing [to] indicate he has in any way changed his attitude...
...Keith S. Grimson, professor of surgery at Duke University, had relieved a lot of peptic ulcers with a combination of tricky operations. But for three years he had been looking for a way to get the same kind of result without surgery. Last week Duke's Grimson announced that he and two associates had succeeded-with a drug called banthine...