Word: fedoras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...afternoon last week, just a few hours before the opening of the world security conference in San Francisco, President Harry Truman grabbed his mouse-colored fedora, rushed out of the White House to a waiting limousine. An aide called airily to newsmen: "We're going to the Pentagon, if you want to come along." Three reporters, representing the press associations, followed...
...motorcade of eight cars crossed the Swiss frontier from the collapsing Third Reich. A very old Frenchman, wearing a black coat and a grey fedora, was the chief passenger. Beside him sat his worried wife. "Don't overdo it, Philippe!" she said. "Don't overdo it!" When a Swiss officer shook his bony hand, the old man's eyes watered. When Swiss girls gave him flowers and candy, his eyes watered again. His wife fretted: "Don't overdo it, Philippe...
Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov waved a grey fedora and smiled when he stepped from a U.S. Army plane at Washington's airport this week. Greeted by Edward R. Stettinius Jr., Mr. Molotov kept on smiling and stared at a point midway between the Secretary of State's chin and navel. Posing later with Stettinius, Anthony Eden, Sir Archibald Clark Kerr and Ambassadors Harriman and Gromyko, the Foreign Commissar stared at nothing in particular (see cut}. Mr. Molotov's companions regarded this as encouraging...
...open back seat of a Packard touring car, Candidate Roosevelt set out, bundled to his white-stubbled chin in a beaver-collared overcoat, his old brown campaign fedora scrunched on his balding poll. Beside him sat Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, shivering in a lightweight topcoat, his nose and chin blue with cold. The sky was lead-colored, the wind sharp. Franklin Roosevelt coughed occasionally and his eyes watered behind his pince-nez. But at Poughkeepsie, Wappingers Falls, Kingston and Newburgh, he waved his arm, grinned, bobbed his head vigorously, spoke cheerfully to the street crowds...
...right field, Franklin Roosevelt's Packard drove up a ramp. The President dismounted, stepped a few feet to a speaker's stand. It began to pour. The President took off his grey fedora, let the Navy cape drop from his shoulders. Standing in the rain in his grey sack suit, he spoke for five minutes. Said he: Bob Wagner "deserves well of mankind...