Word: errand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These were the men for whom Ed Martin labored. He observes: "Of course my enemies always call me Mellon's errand boy. I did enjoy the confidence of Mr. A. W. Mellon." He always refers to him as "Mr. A. W. Mellon." Ed Martin is a respectful...
Hans Fritzsche, No. 2 man to the late Joseph Goebbels in the Propaganda Ministry, whose plea that he was an errand boy to Goebbels apparently was believed by the court...
...even with the added shillings earned by sons John (14), Frank (12) and Leonard (11) as errand boys, motherly Mrs. Naylor has sometimes found it hard to pay the rent on their poky brick cottage and feed a family of 17, not to mention the two cats (Monty & Piddly), a mongrel dog, Billy the canary, two pigs, 16 chickens and a duck. Nevertheless, says Mrs. Naylor of her brood: "I wouldn't be without one of them...
...smart errand boy hears a lot, especially if he happens to be the son of a President. F.D.R.'s second son and self-styled errand runner ("I'm the Roosevelt who didn't go to Harvard") undoubtedly heard plenty: at the Atlantic Charter conference, at Casablanca, Cairo and Teheran. How well he remembers what he heard may be something else, as his mother tactfully suggests in her foreword to this book: "I am quite sure that many of the people who heard many of the conversations recorded herein, interpreted them differently, according to their own thoughts...
Howard Hughes, one month out of a Los Angeles hospital where his plane crash put him, and still looking like a stretcher case (see cut), took to the air again, flew to Manhattan. His errand: pursuit of his $5 million damage suit against the censorious Eric Johnston office for keeping the Hughes-produced Outlaw and its busty Jane Russell out of most of the nation's cinemas. The front was expanding. British censors were now reported doctoring Miss Russell's outlawful curves, and modest shock was officially registered by the Association of Bill Posters of England and Ireland...