Word: dealing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outgoing national chairman, Rhode Island's easygoing J. Howard McGrath, had never wanted to be beastly to the Dixiecrats. He thought that judicious use of patronage and cajolery would corral some Dixiecrat votes in Congress for Harry Truman's Fair Deal. It hadn't done any such thing...
Though John had stoutly denied accepting money for negotiating any purchase of Government surpluses, witnesses testified that he had acted as an agent in a deal involving more than $40,000 worth of electrical equipment from the War Assets Administration. A Washington lawyer named George A. Chadwick Jr. announced that John had been paid $13,000-although he felt that John was not entitled to $8,032.50 of it. Chadwick complained that this sum represented 1,700,000 francs which Maragon had simply pocketed after his employers "entrusted" him with it in France...
Without Pay. Worth insisted that he had done the whole job himself, without pay and without the knowledge of the Navy's top brass. But he had gotten some help from Planemaker Glenn Martin and "a great deal of information" from Commander Thomas D. Davies, who piloted the Navy's Truculent Turtle in its record-breaking flight from Australia to Ohio...
...grease, Philip entered the forbidding water at Cap Gris Nez. Buffeted by squalls and strong tides, he was urged again & again by his father in a rowboat to give up. But Philip would not. Twenty-three hours and 48 minutes after the start, he waded ashore at Kingsdown, near Deal...
Some American comment was indeed impolite and some of it was unfair; a great deal more was sound and factual, and it could have given British readers a close view of their plight, which they appeared never to have gotten so clearly from their own press or their government. Britons who, when they got the U.S. loan, complained that U.S. prices were too high (and would cut down the amount of goods Britain would be able to buy in the U.S.) now cried that U.S. prices were too low; British manufacturers could not compete with them. Other Laborite headlines: "Stop...