Word: f
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Louisiana's Dixiecrat Congressman F. Edward Hebert put it in language any politician could understand. "So the proposition is very clear," he said on the House floor "Your vote is for sale for a job or jobs." It was a blunt denunciation of the price tag Harry Truman had put on political patronage (see above...
...Washington, D.C., Purcell L. Smith, lobbyist for electric utilities, was refused a divorce though he pleaded that he and his wife had not slept in the same bed for five years, although they used the same bedroom. Snapped Judge F. D. Letts: "If I were going to divorce people because husbands and wives did not sleep in the same bed, I would have to divorce half the people in town...
...basement bar of the Hotel Scribe, Parisian headquarters for the Allied press corps during World War II, TIME & LIFE Correspondent Noel F. Busch met another TIME correspondent. A newcomer, hired overseas, he had never even seen his home office and he was curious about it. How, he asked Busch over a drink, had TIME ever begun, anyway...
When he heard the glad news, Slick Airways' President Earl F. Slick took some employees out to his ranch near San Antonio for a big barbecue. In Los Angeles, the Flying Tiger Line's President Robert W. Prescott, 35, was equally elated. Said he: "We have finally dropped the curse of the unwashed...
Flame & Fight. There had been plenty of reports to keep Project Saucer busy. In January 1948, an object like "an ice cream cone topped with red" was sighted by several observers over Godman Air Force Base, Ft. Knox, Ky. Three fighter planes flew off in pursuit. Captain Thomas F. Mantell chased the object to 20,000 ft., later crashed, probably from lack of oxygen, and died...