Word: collets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three: Democrat Albert A. Ridge, onetime bugler in Harry Truman's Battery D; Truman Crony J. Caskie Collet; Republican Albert L. Reeves Sr., whose son defeated Enos Axtell, Harry Truman's nominee to succeed Slaughter, in the November elections...
...hard-driving regimen Harry Truman had staked out for himself when he first entered the White House. But it now revolves around a brand-new operating routine. The old days of government by cronies are gone, and so are most of the cronies (Jake Vardaman, Ed McKim, John Caskie Collet, George Allen, et al.). The President now has a new, tightly knit staff and a new administrative procedure which makes full use of his Cabinet...
John S. Sumner, tireless peeper for the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, clucked at current life & letters generally, but he was not downhearted. "The pendulum always swings wide from one side to another," said he. "The décolleté of the Directoire was followed by the pantalettes of the Victorian era." Had he noticed the latest bathing suits? He never visited the beach. "If they can swim better in them," he hazarded generously, "I suppose they are all right; but if they sink they have themselves to blame...
...Installed his old Missouri friend, Federal Judge John Caskie Collet, onetime Economic Stabilization Director, as a titleless teammate of OWMR Boss John R. Steelman...
Faced with this impasse, the Administration, at first divided on policy, was busy talking itself into a compromise. All week long Harry Truman conferred with OWMR Boss John Snyder and Stabilization Administrator John Caskie Collet, who leaned toward the theory of increased prices to get production going. Then the President summoned (from a Southern vacation) Price Boss Chester Bowles, who was determined to hold the line...