Word: circuit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Curse. For months, Sawyer had been making the chicken-a-la-king circuit of businessmen's luncheons, often talking "off the record," but to big crowds, of the need for reducing Government spending. He even ventured some tentative criticism of the Administration's Brannan Plan. Last week for all to hear, he briskly announced: "The President has requested me to take the lead in designing a program to preserve and strengthen free enterprise...
...Asbury Park, N.J., a mechanical laughing Santa in the window of Steinbach's department store caught fire from a short circuit. While the smoke billowed through the window, his ghostly mechanical belly laugh could be heard ringing in the streets...
...phone calls from children wanting verification of the news. Next day, the Chicago Sun-Times, which had had its share of calls, headlined: "Children: Santa Has NOT Been Shot." Penitent NBC prefaced its next day's News of the World with an interview, over a "special super-radio circuit," between Commentator Morgan Beatty in Houston and Santa Claus at the North Pole. Said Santa, reassuringly: "John L. Lewis just missed...
...handsome Shah (full title: His Imperial Majesty Mohamed Reza Pahlevi, Shahinshah of Iran), a lean, sad-eyed young (30) monarch, might have been born & bred for the guinea hen & champagne circuit. He was a bachelor (having divorced beauteous Princess Fawzia of Egypt in 1948), had a gratifyingly deferential way with the ladies, had a democratic fondness for crowds and machinery, and seemed genuinely moved by his reception...
Last week, two years and four months after the conviction, after one unsuccessful appeal to the Circuit Court and two to the Supreme Court, Andy May was still at liberty. With his codefendants, the Garssons, he had cooked up one more dodge; they asked Washington's District Court to reduce their sentences and let them go free on probation...