Word: wente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jawed, fiery Editor Shipler, 67, has been guiding its destinies for the last 26 years. He had always wanted to be a journalist. After high school in Clyde, N.Y., he spent a year reporting for a Rochester paper, later worked for two years on the Boston Traveler before he went to Manhattan's conservative General Theological Seminary. "For three years," he says, "I suffered there, cut off from the world's affairs." After his ordination, Dr. Shipler spent a year as rector of an Episcopal church in St. Louis and six years at a parish in Cincinnati...
...mechanisms had been paralyzed by a gunshot wound. A .38-cal. bullet had hit the man near the nose, injuring some of the nerves that control the muscles of the throat. In Annals of Surgery, Drs. Howard C. Naff-ziger, Cooper Davis and H. Glenn Bell describe how they went about their problem...
...trip to Lexington. Said he in a slow drawl: "We adore playing them, because when they get beat they take it so hard." But Kentucky, currently ranked No. i by the nation's sportwriters' poll,* hadn't lost a home game in seven years. Down went Georgia Tech...
...Washington went Oilman James A. Moffett. As chairman of two of Aramco's affiliated companies, and onetime $125,000-a-year vice president of Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) and later of Standard Oil Co. of California, gregarious Jimmy Moffett knew the oil business inside & out. As onetime Federal Housing Administrator and an old friend of Franklin D. Roosevelt, he also knew politics and politicos. He soon fixed things so that Ibn Saud was taken care of. But Jimmy Moffett complained that nobody ever took care of him for being such an influential person. Six years later he sued Aramco...
Moffett testified that when he went to Washington on his mission in 1941, he persuaded F.D.R. to help Aramco in its troubles with Ibn Saud. Moffett introduced a 1941 memo from President Roosevelt to Federal Loan Administrator Jesse Jones, which said: "Will you tell the British I hope they can take care of the King of Saudi Arabia-this is a little far afield...