Word: carly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Truman passed. In Springfield, Ill., the oldtime campaign flares were burning and streets were packed twelve deep. In Duluth, half the city (pop. 110,000) lined Superior Street for more than two miles, clambered on roofs, peered from office windows, crowded so close that the President's car brushed their clothes...
Party with Cuties. He moved his blonde wife, Dolores, a Sunday-school teacher, to a $40,000 English-style house on twelve acres of oak-studded land, with a big playhouse for daughter Kathleen, 4. He rolled around town in a chauffeur-driven car. He liked to peel off $100 bills from a fat roll to pay for a haircut, wowed Edwardsville's drugstore cowboys by flashing $1,000 bills. He staked the town's bowling team to a trip to a Detroit tournament. He bought a duck hunters' show place in Arkansas, dropped...
Last week the bubble burst. Prodded by St. Louis' crusading newspapers and the complaints of competing dealers, the state's attorney began poking around Bob's empire. What he found was this: Knetzer lost money on every car he delivered, made his money from the suckers, who got nothing. From his huge backlog of cash deposits, Knetzer bought cars at dealers' auctions for $2,500, sold them for $1,750. Thus he could make good on enough deliveries to keep more customers-and more cash-coming. Cars were scarce, suckers were plentiful and after all, when...
...morning last week, on the home-bound Presidential Special, tired, baggy-eyed Charlie Ross, press secretary to Harry Truman, ambled into the reporters' work car. Said Ross: "Good speech coming up at Clarksburg; it'll make a good story." Then he put down a sheaf of papers and said casually that here was a White House statement...
...newsmen aboard had been told by their offices to keep it brief. The total daily file off the train was down to 75,000 words, only half the "copy drop" from Tom Dewey's train. Between stops, the reporters never visited Mr. Truman in his armored car, the Ferdinand Magellan. He had not wandered up their way since an earlier trip, when a LIFE photographer had snapped him by surprise as he looked in on a poker game...