Word: errand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Through the rough seas running off Clark's Point, Alaska, a small skiff put out. It carried a heart specialist and his assistants, but they were not on an errand of mercy. Curiosity-the kind of curiosity that kills cats for science-led them on. They were looking for a whale; they wanted to feel its pulse...
...stumped again in 1932 for Franklin Roosevelt. In 1937 Roosevelt threw Barkley the majority leadership of the Senate by the famous "Dear Alben" letter,* and "Dear Alben"-sometimes known as "Bumbling Barkley"-amiably suffered the charges of sharp-tongued critics who said that he was nothing but a Roosevelt errand...
Aandahl soon found there was another side to Langer which appeals to North Dakota voters. Always an errand boy for the folks back home, Langer sends a letter signed "Bill" to mark almost every North Dakota birth, death, marriage and golden-wedding anniversary...
...private airplanes and chauffeur-driven limousines. He is worth some $40 million and owner of homes in Manhattan, Long Island, the Hudson Valley, Hobe Sound (Fla.), Sun Valley and Paris. But he is possessed with a patrician's best instinct for public service, decency and generosity. As adviser, errand boy and global troubleshooter for Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman, he has always been selfless, tireless-and available. When he was sworn in for his present job as director of the Mutual Security Administration, Presidential Secretary Matt Connelly quipped: "Averell, isn't this the eighth time...
...from the voters last week. In a struggle for control of the world's most powerful local-government body-London's huge County Council-Socialist candidates ousted 26 Tories and one Liberal, rolled up a huge Labor majority: 92 seats to 37. Cried Herbert Morrison, onetime cockney errand boy who became Socialist boss of London and then his country's Foreign Secretary: "Thank you, London...