Word: errand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Setting forth on this errand, he headed south with a whoosh, traveling like an over-the-road trucker trying to roll his rig home before morning. The pace wilted his helpers, but after three punishing days Dewey was still full of pep and rich with delegates...
...greetings from rebel Governor William M. Tuck. All grace, Dewey replied: "Please give my best regards to Governor Tuck who is a Republican at heart." Then he renewed his courtship of the state's G.O.P. delegation. Harold Stassen blew into town a few hours later on the same errand; Dewey lit out for North Carolina without crossing his path...
Picked up at the County Clerk's office, by lackadaisical Cinemactress Lauren Bacall, who had taken 2½ years getting around to the errand: $2,300 in U.S. bonds being held for her there. "It's an exhausting trip into downtown Los Angeles," she explained, "and I was so tired...
...Errand Boy. Gravely, 76-year-old Cordell Hull sought to correct the impression that he was little more than an errand boy in a State Department actually bossed by Franklin Roosevelt. Between Roosevelt and him there was never an "unfriendly word," although "a few emphatic differences rose between us which we thrashed out bluntly but in a friendly spirit." Hull had to make his own decisions "in the majority of cases." He recommended the moral embargo against Italy during the Ethiopian war. He worked out the details with the British on the overage destroyer deal...
Last week, during a lull in the Palestine fighting, an armored bus under heavy escort headed south from Jerusalem on a mournful errand; it carried the mothers & fathers of the 35 dead to their funeral. The parents stood dry-eyed and solemn as their sons were buried in a common grave on a hillside overlooking the Valley of Fertility. At dawn next day, the uneasy quiet was broken...