Word: forgotten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...taxpayers seemed so honest. Without even a telephoned prod from an Internal Revenue agent, some 111,000 of them had, since March 15, poured into the Treasury a record $170,000,000 in additional taxes on income which they had not reported. One man who remembered that he had forgotten to report a few items of income dug down voluntarily...
...kitchen cabinets and brain trusts, the membership in Harry Truman's gang shifts and changes. Long forgotten are burly, apple-cheeked Hugh Fulton who talked too much, and Omaha insurance man Ed McKim, who served with Harry Truman in the field artillery but was deemed dated for modern Washington. Wrinkled old Admiral Leahy no longer sees the President regularly. Even National Chairman Bob Hannegan has had to take a seat somewhat to the rear...
After 22 days they got their first bath, and, as a special treat, sardines, black bread, sausage and the inevitable vodka. "The first toast," said Cobin, "was for friendship. The second was for victory. I've forgotten what the third one was for, because I was halfway through drinking it when I woke up the next morning back in my original improvised cell." Last week they were released after signing statements that they were not spies and had not been mistreated. Their Russian "opposite numbers" had been released July...
...Brooks House, happily removed the large sign outside their door. It seems that two prospective members, ex-Navy fliers, had come up to the second floor to join but had become so interested in the block construction of an aircraft carrier by a boy of four that they had forgotten all about joining the A.V.C...
...those relating to Altgeld's career in good order. But he adds dabs of "color," invents dialogue ("Dear . . . do you want eggs or hot cakes?" "I want hot cakes"), even pretends to plumb Altgeld's mind and explain his motives. Harry Barnard's biography, Eagle Forgotten (1938), remains by far the best and fullest account of Altgeld's life. The American contributes "interpretive" moments and prose passages that sound like Upton Sinclair...