Word: errand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...less attention from the Army than cooks. Few cantonments had chapels, and chaplains got neither religious equipment nor other assistance. Officers could assign the chaplains to all sorts of chores-tending the canteen, courts-martial, postmaster, athletic or entertainment director, checking up on mess purchases. Many colonels made virtual errand boys of their chaplains...
...attendance record in Congress. The average was less than a day's absence per year, for 38 years. Any Texan could ask him to do anything and be sure he would try. He was a "typewriter Senator," answering every scrap of mail faithfully, always regarding himself as the errand boy of a great State...
Having girded ourselves for that heroic errand, shall we pause to ask if she will mend her morals? . . . Either she is worth saving as she is and was, or she is not worth saving...
...represented by the bespectacled face of Lauchlin Currie, economic aide to President Roosevelt. Currie went to Chungking early this year, at the invitation of the National Government, to try to unravel its snarled finances, set up a working budget. But his mission developed into a high-powered diplomatic errand...
...curious fact they had unearthed: poverty does not, as in peacetime, lead to crime. On the charge sheet 20 boys were listed in a day, eight of them only 16 years old. All were earning salaries big enough to support a respectable family before the war. Scores of onetime errand boys were doing demolition work at ?4/5 ($17) a week. They gave their mothers $6, squandered the rest on liquor, gambling, girls...