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Word: confidante (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Henry A. Wallace, former Vice-President, Cabinet member, and Presidential confidant, steps to the rostrum in Soldiers Field tonight, he will be speaking as a private citizen. It is a striking tribute to the vitality and appeal of his ideology that, although he has no official standing and no...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reliable Source | 10/1/1947 | See Source »

Joseph Arthur Padway, bullnecked, grey-haired, 55-year-old defender of John Lewis, is general counsel for the A.F.L. and the archetype of the U.S. labor lawyer. As confidant, adviser, defender of Jimmy Petrillo, Dan Tobin and many another A.F.L. chieftain, Joe Padway has written both labor history and labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Gladiators | 12/9/1946 | See Source »

He had never learned to speak Chinese (or even pronounce proper names), yet he was the only man who dared criticize Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to his face. For 44 years he had been immersed in Chinese affairs, first as a correspondent and then as confidant, adviser and sometimes as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Home to Shanghai | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

General Ike Eisenhower confirmed last week what most of Washington already knew: that he would step out-probably within a year-as Chief of Staff and be succeeded by gentle, earnest General Omar Bradley, head of the Veterans Administration. That sounded O.K. to almost everybody: Ike would be free to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Double Play | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

Married. Captain Harry C. Butcher, 44, General Eisenhower's ex-aide, confidant and best-selling Boswell (My Three Years with Eisenhower); and Mary Margaret Ford, 34, ex-Red Grosser who met Navyman Butcher in Europe after the Battle of the Bulge; he for the second time, she for the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 20, 1946 | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

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