Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cambridge, it was much the same. There were trips to old abbeys and castles that "haunted me like a passion." There was flashing talk in the common rooms, deep conversations with young Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead; and there were frequent visits to that master historian, Lord Acton...
...plainly just as stunned as the Senators at the idea that anything even smacking of larceny might have developed as a result of his own big heartedness and devotion to the common man. He proudly informed the committee that the FBI had investigated him because of a rumor that he had taken a $10,000 bribe and had found nothing. When he was asked if he would turn over his bank accounts (which the committee had already had for several days), he replied sonorously: "My financial records are available to this committee ... at any time...
Bewildered Candidate. Every so often, between the jazz records, the loudspeaker would blare out a four-minute record: "This is Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.... I appeal to you to vote for ... a brave mother of a brave son . . . Bob Coffey and I had a lot in common. We believed in progressive, democratic government . . . We were veterans together." Mrs. Curry Ethel Coffey, who used to work in the millinery department of Johnston's largest department store and had never been in politics before, was now travelling through the mined-out towns and hilly farmlands of the 26th Pennsylvania congressional district...
Shoes & Soap & Communists. Giuliano has been careful to build up a reputation as the friend of the common man. One of his earliest victims was Salvatore Abate, postmaster of Montelepre, Giuliano's native village. The peasants complained that Abate stole money orders which relatives in America sent.them. One day, Giuliano strode into the post office and coolly bumped off Postmaster Abate, oppressor of the poor. The peasants complained about the prices Giuseppe Terranova charged for flour, shoes and soap, and the interest he charged on loans. Giuliano decided to enforce price control; he led Terranova into Montelepre...
...soup up circulation, the New York Post Home News last week inflated a new dragon. It launched a series called "Millions on Every Pitch," supposedly exposing a nationwide, $33 million-a-day gambling racket based on professional baseball. Cried the Post: "Powerful gambling syndicates, ruthless bookmakers and gangsters, common cutthroats and other criminal vermin [make millions] at the expense of the great sport of American youth...