Word: filed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When able Cary Augustus Hardee, onetime Governor of Florida, fired away at Franklin Roosevelt last fortnight without coming out for his opponent, Candidate Willkie kept silent. Blasted Cary Hardee: "We will hear much in this campaign from the 'pie counter' crowd about how the rank and file of a great people drafted Mr. Roosevelt. Will the people be fooled by it?" But when aging (73) isolationist Senator Hiram Johnson denounced the President for calling him no longer liberal, the Republican nominee chimed in. Observed he: "I would be delighted if a great progressive like Hiram Johnson...
...Capitolio, stood chatting in the lobby at the head of the long flight of marble steps. Only dark patch in the sea of white was the conservative blue business suit draping the lank frame of U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull. A long file of big beflagged cars moved slowly through the surrounding palm-shaded park, bringing more conferees to the red-carpeted entrance. By 10 o'clock committees were already at work in secret session, hammering away at the 56 proposals presented for consideration. Along the colored marble corridors, decorated with gold leaf and mahogany, moved other...
...which horses parade up the track in double file, turn and trot (or pace) down to the starting line in their lot-drawn post positions. Sometimes they make ten or 15 false starts before they all go over the line "on their gait" (without breaking stride...
...Foreign Office is 40-year-old Alexei Vassiltchenko, who few years ago was Stalin's clean-up man. In the evenings he plays a card game called "Preference" with his boss and listens to his long-winded, quasi-scientific dissertations on foreign policy. Vassiltchenko is Molotov's file man (Molotov cannot go half an hour without consulting a file), and one of his files is labeled Bessarabia and The Straits. In the view of the Russian Foreign Office, Bessarabia, the Dardanelles and the Bosporus are parts of the same objective...
...faces a Federal charge of income-tax evasion when he gets out. Fumed Pegler, the whole union is "A vicious racket preying on the rank and file of American worked...