Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although the ladies originally planned only a clothing store, a number of people with other trades and crafts applied for assistance, and a gift shop was soon added. The first few months were discouraging; sometimes the $12 a week salary couldn't be paid...
...score, at least, no one could criticize the qualification of Secretary-to-be Louis Johnson, whose appointment had made the most powerful job in the Cabinet one of the spoils of politics. A lifelong Democrat, he had never wavered through years of being passed by. Balked of one promised gift when Franklin Roosevelt reached over his head to make Republican Henry Stimson Secretary of War, balked again when Henry Wallace got the White House blessing for Vice President in 1940, Johnson stayed in there, ready to pitch for the party when he was called from the bench...
When swarthy, oily-voiced Raymond Martinez Fernandez began wooing lonely widows, he was amazed by his own gift for bringing happiness to others. Though he assiduously mulcted his sweethearts of their savings, they fairly beamed with gratitude at his attentions. But little Ray's gift was his undoing-he attracted his own nemesis, Mrs. Martha Jule Beck...
Last week the company struck a shrewd blow at filtración. Under a new plan, the conductors (many of whom are women) were required to hand out a ticket for each fare received. When a passenger had collected 25 tickets, he would turn them in for a numbered "gift certificate." Holders of each month's lucky numbers would win: a $15,000 house, six refrigerators, six console radios, six washing machines, six bicycles, 99 table radios, 99 pairs of shoes, 700 towel sets and-just to keep the gambling wheel spinning-2,277 tickets in the National Lottery...
...Corporation does act on the alumni gift at its 10 a.m. meeting, it is probable that it will endorse the plaque, which was approved by the directors of the Alumni Association and the executive board of the Associated Harvard Clubs...