Word: donaldson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rick is now 20, and his present record shows the concentrated effort he's exerted in the past five years. Although eliminated in the second round of last year's New York championships, Rick was nevertheless credited with having the best swing in the match by veteran golfer Jimmy Donaldson...
...made an honorary member of the Royal Netherlands Choral Society, in honor of U.S. soldiers who made Maastricht the first Dutch town to be liberated during the war. He received a first-edition block of the 3? George Washington Carver memorial stamps from Postmaster General Donaldson. Kiwanis International President Charles Armstrong informed him that Kiwanis was against Communism, for the United Nations...
...Donaldson trained his eye for swindlers; he also became a relentless pursuer of facts & figures in fraud cases. Among those he helped to convict: the late Dr. Frederick E. Cook, the polar explorer, for mail fraud. The catch which gained Donaldson promotion was his tracking down of a long-wanted train robber...
...Yours Very Truly." As a postal administrator in Washington the last 14 years, Donaldson is still a stranger to most of the town's politicians. He had had a nodding acquaintance with County Judge Harry Truman in Kansas City in the '20s, but in Washington has seen him only infrequently. For the past year he has sometimes sat in at Cabinet meetings for often-absent Bob Hannegan; but he spoke only when spoken...
Congressmen wondered if Harry Truman might go one historic step farther and do the politically unthinkable: let Donaldson pick his postmasters out of the ranks, on merit, They inquired hopefully about his life, his friends, his foibles and hobbies-and found that he is a very unpolitical person. They did learn that he is a registered Democrat, a Methodist, and a Mason; that he likes flashy ties, and sometimes closes a conversation as he would a letter with "Yours very truly." They also learned that, in his off hours, he pores over a stamp collection...