Word: thereupon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Columnists Joseph and Stewart Alsop last week archly recalled Aesop's fable of the frogs that were "so annoyed with the stolid tyranny" of their inanimate monarch, King Log,* that they asked Jupiter to remove him. Jupiter sent them King Stork, who thereupon gobbled up the frogs...
...Vishinsky, was also out of town-indisputably in Belgrade (see Conferences). Would the Westerners care to see the third-in-command, one Valerian Zorin? They would. One by one they saw Zorin, and though they left aide-mémoire, they said emphatically that they wanted to see Molotov. Thereupon, from wherever he was resting his drop-forged constitution, Molotov came back to Moscow...
...month ago Boss Crump realized that he had picked a poor stumpster in Judge Mitchell. The judge was drawing no crowds, whipping up no enthusiasm. Kefauver was doing both-by attacking Boss Crump. Thereupon the Boss took over the real campaigning. He bought big ads in Tennessee dailies (most of which favor Kefauver), blasted away at Kefauver's "tainted Red record in Congress." Blustered Crump: "I'd as soon vote for Vito Marcantonio . . . the oxblood Red Communist of New York City." He likened Kefauver to "a pet coon" that turns its head in innocence, "while its foot...
Like the corner saloon and professional wrestling in the old days, the seven-member Federal Communications Commission had long been a man's affair. But last week it, too, succumbed. Beamed FCC Chairman Wayne Coy: "We've had rectitude, fortitude, and solemnitude, but never before pulchritude." Thereupon pulchritudinous Frieda Hennock, successful Manhattan lawyer and active Democrat, was sworn in as the 24th commissioner in FCC's 14 years...
...raced against Barney Oldfield, the celebrated professional, and lost. The Hugheses moved to Houston, where Hughes Sr. looked for oil. With his partner, Walter Sharp, he struck oil in the Goose Creek field, but the two-edged "fishtail" bits used in those days broke on subterranean rock. Thereupon Hughes designed a conical bit with 166 cutting edges. That tool is the original source and still the main prop of the Hughes fortune, which now amounts to about $145,000,000. The bit is leased, not sold, and accounts for some 75% of the rock bits used in drillings all over...