Word: dears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seven years, as titular leader of the Senate, he had been Franklin Roosevelt's most faithful follower. Opponents had taunted him with being a Roosevelt stooge, a White House errand boy, reminding him constantly that he owed his election as leader to the President's famed "Dear Alben" letter (see p. 20). Critics had called him inept, plodding, bumbling-as often he seemed. But despite both the taunts and his faults, he had kept the faith. Time & again he had yielded his own judgment to the President's, time & again he had marched up Capitol Hill carrying...
...President then issued his famed, first "Dear Alben" letter, unmistakably naming his choice. There were 75 Democrats in the Senate then. Caucusing, they threw their ballots into Carter Glass's battered old Panama. The first 74 to be counted were evenly divided; the 75th was for Alben Barkley. When the result was announced, he bit off the stem of his briar pipe...
Last week in faultless Italian, the Mayor of the world's biggest city broadcast to Italy. Addressing Count Sforza (famed anti-Badoglio Liberal) as "my dear friend," Fiorello LaGuardia said: "We are at a loss here to understand the political situation in Italy. ... The policy of our Government ... is that . . . the form of permanent Government to be adopted, and the economy of the country, are to be left entirely to the decision of the people of Italy. . . . Inasmuch as a change is to be made, it should be made without delay. ... It should not be hampered by anything related...
Willie in his roguish way Tipped Grandpa on the fire one day. Mother said "My dear that's cruel! But of course it does save fuel...