Word: errand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Limits of Loyalty. Alben Barkley had a lot to think about. For 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...
Floogle Street has become a part of G.I. lingo. A soldier sent on a sleeveless errand now calls it a "Floogle Street assignment." The sergeant who inflicts it on him is "flying Floogle Street...
...Woman must secure governmental control of the munitions industry so that the vicious conditions unearthed by the Nye Committee will not be repeated. But she is never going to do this by performing the fallacious errand of scuttling back to the kitchen to search for her soul...
Ramshackle Inn (by George Batson; produced by Robert Reud) brought Zasu Pitts, Hollywood's funny, fluttery fool, to Broadway on a sleeveless errand. A sort of shotgun marriage between farce and melodrama, Ramshackle Inn is lousy with murders, lacking in thrills, not very long on laughs. As a befuddled innkeeper who winds up more than a match for the villains, Actress Pitts is amusing enough, but by no means a match for the bad play...
...Nelson, WPB began to look like a second-string, errand-running organization. Who was in charge of WPB and U.S. war production-if anything was left of WPB after the general exodus? Was Donald Nelson still the boss? Or was OWM Czar Jimmy Byrnes? Or Elder Statesman Bernie Baruch? Or the President himself...