Word: errand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sleeveless Errand. Near Chadron, Neb., a truck sideswiped another truck, sheared an arm off Truckman Ross Thompson, who searched for it along the road awhile, finally drove into town, stopped, fainted...
...effect, going on a Presidential mission (see above}. In his brief case Wendell Willkie will carry letters from Franklin Roosevelt to various officials including Joseph Stalin and Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. But no one who knew the big lawyer thought he was going only as a Presidential errand boy. Willkie wants to see for himself. So he is going to China, which necessarily means a stop in India, the hottest spot of all. And the U.S. could be assured that Willkie would report to the people as well as the President...
...Chief, Seadog Leahy will need diplomacy. Working directly with and under the President, he will be over the Army's Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall and the Navy's COMINCH Admiral Ernest Joseph King. But whether Leahy would be a real boss, or a glorified errand boy and transmission agency for the Commander in Chief, still lay with a President who is slow to delegate important responsibilities...
...Many a minister lamented privately that his X card has resulted in his congregation's using him as a common carrier. Complained one: "It makes me feel like an errand...
...Empire Ordnance Corp. "in connection with their matters pertaining to work in Washington." But he, too, insisted that he had never been employed to use his political influence. Asked the committee: Just what, then, was his job? As Charley pictured it, he was just a sort of guide and errand boy for Cohen...