Word: al
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after Hoover had stubbornly rejected urgent demands that he close all of the nation's banks. Only four years before, Hoover had been elected as the 31st President of the U.S., with 58.1% of the popular vote (still the third highest in history), over Democrat Al Smith. When he took office, he had well earned his position as the most respected man in America. Now, after having been overwhelmed for reelection, he was perhaps the most reviled; the phrase "Hoover's Depression" was current, and the nation's landscape was defaced by those tarpaper-shack communities known...
...Cover His head bowed, his face lined with weariness and worry, the President of the U.S. sat glumly on the dais in the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria. To his right and to his left, white-tied politicians traded good-natured gibes in the spirit of the Al Smith memorial dinner that Francis Cardinal Spellman stages each year. But the guest of honor smiled wanly or not at all. When his time came to speak, he cut his talk in half, delivered it in a hoarse monotone. Lyndon Johnson looked for all the world as if he had just...
...that a good defense could not have cured. In the fourth inning, the roof fell in. A single, a walk, a nifty double steal, bad throws by Shortstop Phil Linz, Second Baseman Richardson and Outfielder Mantle, and the score was 3-0, Cardinals. Out went Stottlemyre; in came Reliever Al Downing, who threw four pitches, one of them a ball. The others: a homer, a single, a double. Out went Downing; in came Rollie Sheldon...
...customers make demands that try the most patient bankers. One sheik withdrew $6,000,000 overnight because his banker could not procure a belly dancer he had admired. And Kuwait's skeptical Sheik Abdullah al Mubarak, who stored $25 million in cash and suitcases full of stocks at Yusuf Bedas' bank, once ordered that his stocks be delivered instantly to his mountain mansion; he carefully counted them one by one, then airily waved them back to the bank. But when he tried to tell Bedas how to run his business, the banker exploded: "Take your money...
...Brock greeted reliever Al Downing with a homer in the next inning. Bill White doubled, Boyer singled, and a sacrifice fly and an infield out scored them...