Word: errand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brigadier General Patrick Jay Hurley had disappeared from Washington again last week. His friends assumed that he was off once more on a mysterious war errand for the President. Washington could not get over the spectacle of Pat Hurley, every bit as anti-New Deal as his old boss Herbert Hoover, turning out to be one of Franklin Roosevelt's trusted lieutenants. Since Pearl Harbor General Hurley had spanned six continents as the President's special representative...
Truman was no ball of fire in his first term. He sat meekly in the freshman row, blinked when critics called him Pendergast's "errand boy," was second only to Pennsylvania's Joseph Guffey (whose vote for New Deal measures was pure automatic reflex) in unswerving support of Administration policies...
...Errand Boy. Most U.S. political machines, however disreputable, have two saving graces to their credit: 1) they are close enough to the people to know basic human desires, tragedies and needs; 2) their bosses, earthy and disillusioned men, have sometimes found talent where more snobbish souls would never have thought to look. In 1921, with his haberdashery under the hammer and black days ahead, Truman looked up some old servicemen friends in the Pendergast organization. Truman was a veteran, a farmer, a Mason, a Democrat from three generations back; he had friends all over Jackson County. The machine made...
...with Errand. In a perfect democracy, run without hitch, Truman would never have been returned to the Senate in 1940. A majority of Missouri Democrats, in full revolt against the machine, opposed him in the primary. But Attorney Milligan and ex-Governor Lloyd Crow Stark split the opposition vote, and Truman slipped in with an 8,000-vote plurality. For a nation whose Administration, army and war contractors are not perfect either, it has turned out to be a good thing...
...Miami, a photographer wanted to take the customary picture. Winchell asked him not to, said the Navy would have to answer why. That stirred more curiosity. The editor of the Miami Herald called Winchell, wanted to know where he was going. Commander Winchell said: "I am running an errand for Uncle." The Miami Herald then ran a story making Winchell's mission sound secretish, the A.P. picked it up and some of the U.S. press heckled Walter Winchell for sounding...