Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Supercrooks. In Yarmouth, England, four boys confessed with a touch of braggadocio what they had done with the 64 bricks of ice cream they had stolen the night before: they ate them...
...others could be devoted to Statesman Vandenberg. Dewey, it was variously said, was too mechanically precise to be liked, too watchfully unbending to be confided in, too coldly ambitious to be loved. Few if any Republicans doubted that Dewey's administration could be counted on to get things done with competence and tidy dispatch. It would move surely, after poring over all the facts. It would be alert, but would avoid any sudden changes of policy. It might be short on imagination, but it would certainly be long on efficiency...
...Dewey had put an anti-discrimination law-a sort of state FEPC-through New York's legislature. Gillespie was flattered to be invited to meet the governor, who granted him a midnight audience. It lasted a full half hour. Gillespie recalled later: "I told him he had done more for Negroes than any other public figure in America. Mr. Dewey asked me, 'More than Lincoln?' I told him, 'Yes, Lincoln did his part in another way.' " Gillespie departed, pledged to support Tom Dewey on the second ballot. Every day after that, Judge Rivers met Gillespie...
That night, having done all he could, Tom Dewey and his handsome wife, the former Frances Hutt of Sapulpa, Okla., settled down in their dignified hotel room, with its mulberry walls and rose drapes, to listen to the nominating speeches on television. The Governor was quite composed...
Taft and Duff agreed that something had to be done. They decided to call in Harold Stassen and meet again the following night at Hamilton's other apartment at 2031 Locust Street. That night Stassen and Taft-old political enemies-confronted each other and sat down as allies. With Duff they reviewed the whole situation. In anguish they reported to each other that the Dewey camp was spreading stories so fast that by the time one was checked another had cropped up. Delegates were being stampeded. They compared notes. Taft's and Stassen's figures...