Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This would be no news to Congressman Albert J. Engel of Michigan. Earnest, wire-haired Mr. Engel, who has done plenty of scratching around in the underbrush of Washington, had long ago discovered that the War Department (in the matter of public funds) was a "rat hole...
...been Secretary of the Treasury for eleven and a half years, longer than any other except Albert Gallatin (1801-13), would go back to his tulips and tomatoes at his Fishkill Farms in Dutchess County, N.Y. He left no great record behind him. But he had helped mightily to fight inflation, and the proposal to stabilize international finance (Bretton Woods), for which he took credit, seemed sure of enactment. His chief difficulty had been his inability to get along with Congress...
Thus, in a glowing, rhetorical, chart-studded, 142-page report to the President, WPB Chairman Julius Albert Krug expressed his pride in U.S. wartime industry...
...Fishing Trip. At this point 19-year-old Seaman Albert Kovacs, with his brother James, appeared on the dangerously crowded stage. Al, a veteran of the Pacific, now stationed at Portsmouth, had been fishing. He had had a date with Faith Coombs, an 18-year-old high-school girl who looked after the Milton children. He was late; Faith was not there. Except for the children upstairs, asleep, the Milton house was empty. Al raided the icebox for some beer and he and James sat down to drink...
...Albert R. Harvey, Gore...