Word: cools
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cloudy Session. Before he left Washington, the President had had a cool-to-cloudy session with hypertensive Democratic Party Chairman Bob Hannegan, accepted Hannegan's decision to quit the chairmanship with few regrets. With quiet irritation, the President dropped his speech coach, J. Leonard Reinsch, from the Rio passenger list. For weeks, columnists had spread a false rumor that Reinsch would be appointed FCC chairman to succeed Chairman Charles R. Denny. The President suspected Reinsch of what he considers a cardinal sin: starting the rumor himself. Washington heard that Harry Truman had acidly been asking his close associates...
Eleanor Roosevelt finally made public reply, in the Ladies' Home Journal, to Jim Farley's public charge, in Collier's, that the Parleys had got a moderately cool shoulder in White House social life. Wrote the ex-First Lady: "Unwittingly in some way I ... seem to have hurt both Mr. and Mrs. Farley. For that I am genuinely sorry . . . but I feel I never treated them any differently. . . ." Being a member of the Cabinet, observed Mrs. Roosevelt, implied that one was considered "a man of parts." She pursued sweetly: "Mr. Farley failed to understand this. His tremendous...
...convention, decided at the last minute to be Wendell Willkie's floor manager, too, and that he was a driving force in the revolt that gave Willkie the nomination. The rest of that bit of history is that Stassen broke with Willkie after 1940. He gave an extraordinarily cool review to Willkie's One World on the front page of the New York Times Book Review, and he refused to go along with Willkie in the latter's fight to name the G.O.P. national chairman in 1942. Unlike Willkie, Stassen has been a Republican all his life...
...recapture the glorious days of imperial and Tory Britain, when life was ordered and largely predictable, his listeners were neatly sorted on hierarchical lines. With Churchill on the speaker's platform was the tenth in the line of the victor of Blenheim ("My Lord Duke" Churchill called him), cool, calm and ruddy. Beside him sat his Duchess, magnificently hatted with two feathers sweeping from under a black brim...
...even as a member's guest, was about to close; the Government had refused to renew its lease. No more would the pink pukka sahibs and their leathery memsahibs stare glassily over the glassy bay. Gone from most of the smart hotels were the signs "Europeans only." In cool Simla, Indians now jostled along the Mall where 20 years ago no person in Indian dress would have been allowed...