Word: errand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Swedish liner Gripsholm stood ready for another errand of mercy. Into her hold went medicine, clothing, cigarets, food packed by Red Cross volunteers who worked day & night shifts. Aboard went the pathetic little gifts, prepared with great hope and sorrow, by the families of the American men & women who are spending the war in Japanese prison camps...
Repeater. Hague's choice for the nomination was his perennial errand boy, three-time Governor A. (for Arthur) Harry Moore, a Hague henchman since 1913. As Hague's U.S. Senator in 1935, Harry Moore had voted against Social Security, giving his reason in the deathless phrase: "It will take the romance out of old age." Labor, anxious to team up with Frank Hague to help along the Term IV campaign next year, nevertheless balked at backing old A. Harry...
Clerical assistants constitute a final division in the classifications of librarians. This is the largest department in the library, with 77 people doing the miscellaneous jobs covered by this field. Their duties range from errand boy to work at the charging desk. Also included in this department are office assistants and clerks...
...York's Daily News last week reported: "Hitler's errand boy, General Francisco Franco, has taken out of the port of Philadelphia more than 200,000 gallons of high-grade petroleum products within the last week." Standard Oil spokesmen said that permission for the shipment had come from the State Department. The State Department said that the permission was based on thorough consideration, added that the shipment (in a Spanish vessel) consisted of lubricating...
...House debated a $707 million Agriculture Department appropriation. Up rose Missouri's knob-nosed Clarence Cannon, errand boy for the Farm Bloc. The Appropriations Committee had already lopped $100 million for farm incentive payments off the bill. Representative Cannon, suspecting the Administration might use other Agriculture Department funds for such subsidies, and sticking tight to the farm-bloc alternative of higher prices, offered an amendment barring all incentive payments. The House, whipped into line by the farm lobby, approved...