Word: confidante
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The first stop was at West Point (pop. 2,510), where a high-school band and a thousand curious townsmen clustered on the main street. Wendell Willkie, hero to millions in 1940, world-flying confidant of Churchill, Stalin and Chiang Kaishek, climbed up on a truck. Slouched against the cab...
When Harry Hopkins, who comes closest to being the real Assistant President of the U.S., is not at work, the President has more visitors, more decisions to make, more troubles. Hopkins, besides being the one real Roosevelt confidant, holds a dazzling combination of official posts. Ill but indefatigable, he works...
Strange Outing. One day in midtrial, Banker John Anderson, friend and confidant of Sir Harry's, took the reporters on an excursion to Hog Island to admire Shangri-La, the fabulous estate of Swedish tycoon Axel Wenner-Gren. U.S. and British black listings keep this nimble friend of Millionaires...
All these served to underline once again Molotov's position as Stalin's friend, teammate and confidant. His years as Premier and Foreign Commissar have matured him, added to his already big stature. He is still the tough, alert, suspicious politician he was 20 years ago. But the...
Madame Chiang and the other Soongs gathered in Nanking. They sent William Henry Donald, their Australian confidant, to Sian to see what he could do.