Word: genial
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shining Career. But Genaro was established as presidential bootblack. He bent over the shoes of stern Plutarco Elias Calles, of genial Emilio Portes Gil, of absent-minded Abelardo Rodriguez. He went on the palace payroll ($45 a month). Courtly Pasquel Ortiz Rubio sent the presidential limousine for him. President Cardenas bought him a specially made English car that he could drive himself. Avila Camacho paid off a $300 mortgage on his house...
...clock each weekday morning for nearly 14 years, Chicago's political reporters have trooped into the big, green-carpeted office on the fifth floor of City Hall. Big, genial Ed Kelly was there to greet them. He would usually lean back in his chair and start off his press conference with an Irish story. Then the boys would ask a few questions. Usually Ed would ask a few in return. The boss took great pride in his slogan: "I'm not only mayor of Chicago, I'm father...
...Preacher. To spread its new gospel, N.A.M. chose as its 1947 president a likely man to do it, big, genial Earl Bunting, 53, head of the O'Sullivan Rubber Corp. (makers of "America's No. 1 Heel"). Born on a farm in southern Illinois, Bunting studied engineering, ran his own consulting firms in Portland (Ore.) and Washington before he took over O'Sullivan's presidency...
...what to do next. First of all, they needed someone to start picking up the pieces. National Chairman Bob Hannegan had fled, exhausted, to rest. Presumably he would resign when he came back. Aspiring successors were around, but none of them amounted to much. The chief applicant was fat, genial Robert Kerr, who would be out of his job as Governor of Oklahoma in January...
...faced, preacherish Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives, three-time Congressman from Kentucky; of pneumonia; in Washington. During a record total of 23 years (1911-19, 1931-46) in the clerkship, he signed more appropriation bills than any predecessor, ran the complex machinery of the House as a genial steward runs a club. His duties: filing House documents, disbursing payrolls, recording bills, drafting and engrossing messages, indexing the daily calendar...