Word: closers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Much closer to Franklin Roosevelt are the men to whom he turns for simple fellowship. The President knows that what he tells safe, sound Henry ("Henny Penny") Morgenthau will not pop out in some gossip column the next morning; for that reason, the Secretary of the Treasury rates higher as a friend than as a policy-making official. New York's Appeals Court Judge Sam Rosenman, a Roosevelt crony since 1929, is half friend, half counselor: he may arrive with the rough manuscript of a Presidential speech, stay to gossip about old times in Albany, or to ease some...
...Germany and Italy should win the war, which one of these two things comes closer to what you think the U. S. should...
...election. The nation took it seriously; deadpanned the act, as if it really were enjoying all the blessings of democratic free choice, instead of a wide-open affair of pistoleros and cheats. As a matter of fact, it looked early in the week as if the election might come closer to democracy than anything Mexico ever had. There was the usual Government-sponsored, in-the-bag candidate. But there were also three other candidates, and one of them, though he had not a paisano's prayer of winning, nevertheless was conceded a chance to pile up a whopping...
...endless Round-Table Conferences on the Indian Constitution, visited Delhi (where he was greeted with a sign reading "Lothian, go back"), developed an admiration for Gandhi's saintliness when he was living in a mud hut next Gandhi's. As a firm believer in closer U. S.-British trade relations, he resigned from the Cabinet when Liberals split from the Government, over trade policy. As a close friend of Lady Astor's, he was damned as a member of the Cliveden Set during the appeasement crisis, like other members denied that there was such...
...plenty of it, concerned with the fledgling glories of the U. S. fleet at Newport, Charleston and Santo Domingo in the brave days of '76. F. van Wyck Mason has the prettiest ear extant for racy Colonial speech; his sense of character is lively, though it is closer to The American Boy than to perfection; his yarns are rattling good, and if anyone wants to see where the romantic conception of an Indian fighter has got to in the last century, he need only compare Deerslayer with Mr. Mason's tough, wenching Sam Higsby...