Word: chase
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...April 5, 1861 a White House clerk carefully penned a letter for the signature of the new President of the U.S., Abraham Lincoln. Addressed to Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase, it requested that "on today, and on the first of each month, please send me a Warrant for the amount of my salary . . ." Placed on public view for the first time at week's end, the document bears witness anew to the honesty of Honest Abe. Inaugurated on March 4, 1861, Lincoln decided that his pay ($25,000 a year) should not have begun until the following...
...often stilted, static, unreal, and riddled with tasteless jokes and cliches that would embarrass Helen Trent. It is also awkwardly resolved: the play ended with the girl surviving the abortion-and only then did the walls of noncommunication tumble -but the movie tacks on a climactic chase in the night, in which the boy's father snatches the girl from danger, then gives his son enough money to go off and get married somewhere, presumably anywhere, so long as it's away from home. This dubious happy ending suggests an even more dubious moral...
...spotted at Loch Garten. Ornithologist George Waterston, Scottish representative of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, stood guard while the hen laid three eggs. The oölogist enemy was watching, too. At 2 a.m. one dark night, an egg snatcher climbed the tree. The defenders gave chase, but the oölogist escaped into a nearby forest, dropping and smashing two of the eggs as he fled...
...Stewart, a World War II bomber pilot and group commander (20 missions), had just got word from Washington that the Senate Armed Services Committee had unanimously approved his promotion to real-life brigadier rank. His upgrading had been blocked since 1957 by Maine's unyielding Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith, his own light-colonel sister (retired) in Air Force arms. Colonel Smith last week dropped her opposition to Jimmy Stewart. The Defense Department assured the committee that active Pilot Stewart will, if a national emergency comes, be grounded in a public-relations billet. If any proof were needed that...
...what I like," he booms. "What I like is running newspapers and TV"). Son of a Toronto barber, Roy Thomson started collecting his fortune when he set up a bush-country radio station, soon took over a bush-country weekly in a fast deal: "One dollar down and chase me for the rest." Like Fleet Street's Lord Beaverbrook, he eventually outgrew Canada, six years ago bought Edinburgh's Scotsman, settled in Scotland, soon had a corner on Scottish commercial TV ("The most beautiful music to me is a spot commercial at ten bucks a whack...