Word: generale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Politicking. With obvious relish he busied himself at party politicking. It was a week when he could watch three political plums safely deposited in the hands of three good friends. At a swearing-in ceremony, a function which he always hugely enjoys, he handed ex-Attorney General Tom Clark his commission as a Justice of the Supreme Court. Ex-Democratic National Party Chairman Howard McGrath got his commission as Attorney General, and Bill Boyle Jr. got a gavel and the chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee...
Presidential Priorities. It developed that John's old friend, Major General Harry Vaughan, the presidential military aide, had dashed off wads of letters on White House stationery to get John and his business associates transportation, visas, and help from U.S. officers abroad. Before one wartime perfume-buying trip just after V-E day, Harry Vaughan informed the State Department that the President himself was "personally interested" in Pal John's travels-a suggestion which enabled John to go to Europe with a top priority I-D rating...
When investment houses refused to buy Oregon bonds on the grounds that the state was technically insolvent, the state attorney general ruled the measure invalid. But pensions would still cost $26 million for the next two years-as compared with...
Five Percent? There were signs last week that Britain's Labor leaders were shedding their no longer very rosy illusions. With a general election ahead, it would not be easy for Prime Minister Clement Attlee to call for a temporary retreat in the drive to establish the welfare state. But such a retreat was plainly under...
...AMERICANS: "Nothing could well be more disastrous than that America should take sides ... in the British general election." FOR BRITONS: "The British public should try to be less touchy about what is said in America. The real test is what is done, and by that test the United States Government has leant over backwards to avoid anything that could be construed as interference...