Word: greys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quietly upping the army from 150,000 to 500,000 in preparation for good weather. Hearty and well-publicized was Sumner Welles's luncheon with his old diplomatic crony, Leland Harrison, the Minister to Bern. But unpublicized and mysterious was another U. S. Ambassador's visit. Squarejawed, grey-haired John Cudahy, newly appointed U. S. Minister to Belgium, left his embassy, entered Zürich undetected, got past the reception desk at the hotel without leaving his name, late at night departed as secretly as he had come...
...Lunched with grey, good-natured, conservative Dr. Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, perpetual in-&-outer among Hitler's economic advisers. If any scheme was abroad for a World Bank to redistribute gold along the lines proposed by the State Department's Brain-truster Adolf Berle (TIME, Feb. 19), Dr. Schacht was the man to discuss it with...
...stuff. He showed that, even under the most favorable conditions, expansion would take place more than 100 times as fast as cooling-therefore that a planet would never have a chance to form. In the Scientific American last week his work was explained by Princeton's grey, gentle Henry Norris Russell, a great authority on the solar system, under the gloomy title, "A Famous Theory Weakens...
When Teddy Roosevelt was trustbusting, Omaha's most grandiose mansion was Joslyn Castle. Daring schoolboys pressed their noses against the glass of its greenhouse for a peek at the Joslyn orchids. Their elders exclaimed over the turreted grey pile's pipe organ. But in local society, even organ and orchids could never quite let George Joslyn and his wife Sarah live down the rumor that their fortunes were founded on a quack cure for gonorrhea ("Big G"). The Joslyns went to Omaha in 1880 with $9 and two suitcases. In 1916 sharp-eyed George Joslyn left his wife...
Meanwhile things were happening on the board. To it went a trouble-shooter of experience, William Grey Dunnington, who had helped push Cap Rieber to the top of Texas Corp., has for some years been attorney for Mrs. O'Brien. Promptly Mr. Dunnington was elected a member of a trouble-shooting executive committee of seven, including Morgan-Partner Harry P. Davison, onetime Morgan-Partner William Ewing, Donald Kirk David (representing the Ziegler interests) and Paul Fleischmann. Last week Standard Brands had other changes to announce. To President Thomas L. Smith, onetime Standard Brands wagon man, had gone the duties...