Word: conducting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Congress recognized the N. R. A. and appropriated funds to help stage a bigger, broader tournament, the national rifle and pistol matches became the War Department's baby. Today, through the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, the War Department spends $500,000 a year to conduct the Camp Perry matches-sending to the tournament, in addition to picked marksmen from each branch of the service, civilian and National Guard teams representing each State in the U. S. To encourage civilian marksmanship, it offers every civilian contestant a service rifle or pistol, expert instruction, all the ammunition...
...what looked like a ghost of that earlier chance. Jew-baiting, Hitler-aping Naziphile Joseph ("Joe McNazi") McWilliams (TIME, Sept. 23) leader of the American Destiny Party, was 1) rolled flatter than a pfennig in last week's Congressional primaries in Yorkville (Germanic), 2) convicted of disorderly conduct for stirring up an anti-Semitic fracas, 3) committed by a judge to Bellevue's psychiatric ward for ten days' observation...
...found himself leading a full-fledged political movement. At a mass meeting 4,500 patriotic Yorkvillagers rallied round his Congressional candidate, Republican James Elaine Walker Jr., great-nephew of Garfield's and Harrison's Secretary of State James Gillespie Elaine. Out on parole awaiting sentence for disorderly conduct was Joe McWilliams, whom Dalton (and Walter Winchell) had dubbed "McNazi." But not even McWilliams' impending defeat satisfied Harry. He wanted to debate with him from the same platform. Closest he had come to it was a few weeks ago when Mobilizer McWilliams shouted to his audience...
Recalling Thomas Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase, the Star-Times jibed: "The Post-Dispatch of that day was the Columbian Centinel of Boston, and its conduct is described in five words by Claude Bowers in Jefferson in Power: 'The Columbian Centinel went mad.' . . . [The Centinel declared] that Jefferson had given away 'nearly all the gold and silver in the United States.' And for what? 'Wild land.' Land of which 'we do not want a foot.' Jefferson, it moaned, 'had run in debt for Mississippi moonshine $15,000,000. . . . There were appeasers...
...smart sartorial pace as an international clotheshorse. He was called the best-dressed American in Europe, the King of the Dudes. He was reported to possess 285 pairs of pants, 5,000 custom-tailored neckties. It was rumored that he changed his ties six times a day. His conduct was motivated by a great principle: find out what suits you and always wear it. Berry Wall usually wore capes and coats of horse-blanket plaid, high horse-collars cinched with lush Ascot cravats. Sometimes he changed into one of his crimson satin lounging suits to lead one of his chows...