Word: greate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that is a year or two beyond the time when my term will expire." But he told them to keep informed on the Government, and one of them might even have "this terrible job which I have . . . and you might get a chance to live over there in that great white jail, with the balcony and everything...
That night at the gala dinner, the politicos had their happy fill of virtue, curried shrimp and good cheer. Harry Truman kidded Vice President Alben Barkley about his St. Louis girl friend, and McGrath introduced the Veep, to great applause, as "the squire of Paducah and the new spirit of St. Louis." Barkley said imperturbably that "there has always been an inseparable connection between Kentucky and Missouri and it looks like it's going to continue-I hope...
...years of pursuing the fast buck around the national capital, weedy Little John Maragon never seemed to be getting anywhere. He was an anxious glad-hander of big men, a hanger-on at the White House, a willing errand-runner and a great fellow for cadging free rides in official trains and limousines. But he lived in a middlebrow house in the suburbs, moaned about the cost of groceries, and looked like a part-time shoe clerk. Most of the capital was inclined to agree when his fellow countryman, Greek-born Promoter William G. Helis, said...
Without Pay. Worth insisted that he had done the whole job himself, without pay and without the knowledge of the Navy's top brass. But he had gotten some help from Planemaker Glenn Martin and "a great deal of information" from Commander Thomas D. Davies, who piloted the Navy's Truculent Turtle in its record-breaking flight from Australia to Ohio...
...British press, as if a little ashamed of its earlier behavior, paused to recall how much the U.S. had already done for Britain; the U.S. press reminded itself of the harsh fact that, if Britain went down in economic distress, dragging the great sterling bloc of nations with her, the U.S. economy would be sorely shaken, the free world's defenses critically weakened. Dean Acheson in Washington and Ernest Bevin in London argued that the need to maintain U.S.-British unity must influence economic decisions...