Word: closeting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Normally policemen do not investigate the lives of ragged men who die in cheap rooming houses. But in Rodger P. Stewart's case they had a sound reason. They discovered why he kept visitors out. Behind his padlocked closet door lay a Gladstone bag. The bag contained jewelry, $30,000 worth of Singer Sewing Machine stock and $200,000 in cash, including one $10,000 bill...
Inside, they discovered gaming implements, an adding machine, four telephones, and dozens of envelopes with code numbers on them for runners. They also found a closet containing a trap door which concealed the phones and threw a switch disconnecting them in the event of a raid...
Triangle. In Portland, Me., Mrs. Marie Van Zelm, suing for divorce, complained that her husband: 1) hung his late first wife's clothes in their bedroom closet, 2) kept an urn of her ashes in the living room, 3) framed her pressed funeral flowers on the wall, 4) always bought two Christmas trees and explained, "One is for us [meaning the first wife], the other...
Another of the skeletons in Lodge's closet is his own record of absenteeism--a record he has excused by pleading that he "had himself recorded" most of the time. But this should not obscure the fact that, for example, he was absent from 98 out of 129 Senate roll calls in 1952--the second worse absentee record of any Republican Senator. Nor should it excuse the fact that Lodge was absent from 45 out of 46 roll call votes on price control during 1951 and 1952. Nor the fact that he was absent from the Senate floor when President...
Eisenhower, on the other hand, "will need have no fear [of finding] Communist skeletons in his political closet." Many Americans wondered, said Nixon, whether "we may lose the struggle . . . against Communism." His reply: not a chance-"provided we get proper leadership...