Word: ax
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were moved. One old newshawk, tough as a boot, confessed to a throat lump big as a doorknob. Willkie himself had wet eyes. At long last, and perhaps in spite of himself, Wendell Willkie was finding out that a Presidential candidate must do more than grind away at his ax: he must dramatize himself...
...Hampshire's grim, trumpet-voiced Senator Charles William Tobey, Republican head-hunter on the Senate Committee on Campaign Expenditures. He expected to be joined by Arkansas's Senator John Elvis Miller, a Democrat but no New Dealer. Senator Tobey got a room in Newark, whetted his ax, spit on his hands and took a stance. Just as he was about to swing, word came from Washington that Senator Miller could not appear, no one else on the committee could be spared, it would be highly improper for Republican Senator Tobey to sit alone on an investigation...
...Ax for Chip...
...Navy contracts. Mr. Roosevelt said that he had heard of a good deal of smoke and had seen a good deal of smoke, and that if there were any improper fire behind it he hoped that Congress would go right after it. Newsmen took this to mean that the ax was being sharpened up at last for Chip Robert...
...that of a U. S. town and the people in it from 1914-1918. It shows what they were like, what they did, felt, said, hoped, how they argued, worked, fought, lived, died, made war and made peace. It offers no special pleading, grinds no economic or historical ax. Its thesis is the belief that nations, like individuals, cannot understand their present and their future unless they remember their past correctly, which the U. S. has a tendency...