Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...never gives an order, has asked only one favor of the city administration in eight years (one of "the Senator's" friends needed a job). His great power is the Star. He can sit back, dictate an editorial or work up a story that will get the things done. Big Roy is the easiest man to see in town. To his desk every day come a steady stream of citizens to tell him their troubles and plans-everything from politics to church benefits. He always takes time to listen...
...wonder is not that Europeans living amid the testaments to our common failure do so little for themselves, or show so little enthusiasm for this last battle to save what is left. The wonder is that since the end of World War II they have done so much, an that with our aid we can now reasonably expect them to do more...
...kept himself alive as a dishwasher, engine cleaner, grape picker, ranch hand and art photographer-and studied painting at night. "I have done nearly everything except commercial art," he recalls, "but it is not true when they say I worked as a butler...
...months at least, Mauldin will take things easy. "I'm just tired," he said. "This is something I should have done when I first got out of the Army." Later on, he will decide whether to go back to newspaper cartooning, or let Willie and Joe stay on the shelf for the duration of the peace...
...Luce's poll (he didn't say Roper did it) showed Wallace to have 15,000,000 votes. . . . From Mr. Winchell's Broadway column, the rumor fell back again into the Communist press . . . where it was reported that it was reliably reported that Roper had done the poll on Wallace for Luce, and when Luce saw the results he told Roper to go back and do another poll. And the second poll, according to the Daily Worker, showed Wallace to have over 11,000,000 votes. (An example of admirable restraint -for the Daily Worker...