Word: franklin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...square his own dentist for a federal job. The gentleman, Dr. Charles L. Singer, had been nominated to run the U.S. Assay Office in New York City, a $7,432.20-a year job traditionally earmarked for Tammany. Dr. Singer was deserving: he had twice been an elector for Franklin Roosevelt. He also knew what gold was; he had filled teeth with it. He was elated: "Imagine! A presidential appointment announced at the White House. It is quite an honor...
...Sedan. As the manhunt shifted to the south, the cops got another clue -their quarry had walked calmly into a Jacksonville automobile agency, bought a new Pontiac sedan, registered it under the name of Robert Franklin, and vanished again...
...between, Harry Truman reluctantly said goodbye to two tired veterans who had long been hoping to move on. One was old (73), corrugated Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy-presidential chief of staff for both Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman-who had been ailing, and writing his war memoirs since Jan. 1. In a little ceremony at the White House, Harry Truman awarded Billy Leahy his third Distinguished Service Medal, pinned the medal with two gold stars on his beribboned jacket...
Budenz obliged. In committing tailism, Browder was riding the ideological coattails of such "bourgeois" thinkers as Franklin Roosevelt. Opportunistic error, said Budenz, was failing to follow the Marxist-Leninist line. Revisionism was erroneously believing in peaceful progress towards socialism. And just plain Browder-ism: being guilty of all the other errors in one big lump...
Eleanor Roosevelt couldn't quite see why Franklin Jr. "or anyone else wants to get into politics . . . But if he wants to, he has as much right to run as anyone...