Word: bond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tall sharp-faced man, with irregular yellow teeth, generally clamped on a long black cigar, he made a bad first impression," but his reasoning and his conviction won him friends). There was Amos Kendall, the Harry Hopkins of the age ("his chronic bad health may have created a special bond with the President, and Jackson soon began to rely on Kendall for aid in writing his messages. . . . Gradually, Kendall's supreme skill in interpreting, verbalizing and documenting Jackson's intuitions made him indispensable...
...typical country dinner-baked chicken and dressing, candied sweet potatoes, cranberry jelly, salad, apple pie and ice cream. The 42-room hotel's "banquet room" was hung with pennants. Against the printed wallpaper were a Kiwanis Club shield, a Junior Chamber of Commerce emblem, a War Bond campaign thermometer...
Small Fry Coddler. He bought small bond issues of rural school districts, which no one else would touch. When lack of bids threatened the whole Golden Gate Bridge project, A.P. bought the bonds. He also coddled the small fry: any regularly employed person can borrow up to $300 on his signature alone. When the Securities and Exchange Commission objected to some of his operations, A.P. defended himself by attacking. He haled the SEC into court...
Elman started auctioning freak items on Hobby Lobby as a war-bond stunt. Soon, as Victory Auction, it was a show of its own, sold over $250,000,000 worth of bonds. The Treasury got his permission to imitate the idea. Now Elman is putting Auction to postwar profit. He got an auctioneer's license (he gets 20% commission on sales), a sponsor, and fifteen assistants to help him round up and check on items...
...continuity of free government, Prime Minister Attlee spoke: "In this country we are blessed with a King who . . . combines with an intense love of our country and of all his people a thorough comprehension of our Parliament and democratic institutions. . . . The King and Queen . . . have strengthened the bond uniting them to our people. This bond is no constitutional formality. It is based on deep affection and understanding...