Word: errand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with its sanded floor. "There were never less than seven of us in the house, and an invalid relative occupied one room," recalls Bevan, now the King's minister in charge of housing. He was an avid reader. As he trudged along Tredegar's streets (as an errand boy for the butcher), he was usually absorbed in an adventure story-Rider Haggard or Baroness Orczy...
...struggle between "cliffhangers" and party progressives. Among the rebels were ex-Willkieite liberals and supporters of Harold Stassen, as well as Bob Taft's and Bertie McCormick's old guard. Hugh Scott's own support came not only from Dewey liberals, but also from the errand boys of Pennsylvania's 86-year-old Boss Joe Grundy, the oldest guard of them...
Last year James Smith, 73, porter at the New York Athletic Club at $31.55 a week, had dropped in on Christmas night on the same kind of errand. This year, from a rumpled paper bag, Smith dumped a cascade of dimes, pennies and other small change that added up to more than $300. Said he: "I'd like for you to give this to the kids at the New York Foundling Hospital...
...differences, tried hard in Berlin to make a go of it with Marshal Zhukov. The Marshal, he found, was merely a high-ranking Kremlin mouthpiece without authority, though Stalin himself said to Ike: "There is no sense in sending a delegate somewhere if he is merely to be an errand boy. He must have authority to act." Ike soon learned that the East-West ideological differences were irreconcilable, that adequate military defense would provide the only real security...
...Errand Boys." Having developed his criticism of the Both Congress into an effectively political issue, he used that issue for all it was worth. He called the Republicans in Congress "errand boys of Big Business," declared that lobbyists pulled the strings and the people got stung. He boasted: "I vetoed more bills than any President except Grover Cleveland-if I hadn't been there to protect you, you would be in a very great fix by this time...