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...background was tiny, shy, astonished Mrs. Willkie, of whom Indiana Congressman Charles Halleck, Willkie's nominator, remarked admiringly: "She's plain vanilla." Anxiously she watched her husband sweat through shirts every few hours, while his broad face grew haggard, the shadows under his eyes dark, his smile strained. At one conference he almost collapsed, was rushed off to bed. He slept an hour, came back for more...
Wednesday night, a weary Willkie flopped down beside the radio to hear Halleck's nominating speech. He listened while Halleck pleaded his cause, told the story of Wendell Willkie, who had been born 48 years ago to a lawyer mother and a lawyer father in Elwood, Ind., now wanted to be President. This Willkie boy had worked as a harvest hand in Minnesota, in the oil fields of Texas, had run a tent hotel in a Colorado boom town, worked as a migrant laborer in California. He had gone to Indiana University, been admitted to the bar, married pretty...
...help laconic Mr. Smith dig into NLRB, Speaker Bankhead appointed two 100% New Dealers, Massachusetts' Arthur Healey and Utah's Abe Murdock; and two 100% Republicans, Ohio's Harry Rouzohn and Indiana's Charles Halleck...
...service in the field of cancer and allied diseases have made the whole country its debtor." President Roosevelt's message summed up the attitude of the congregation in the Waldorf-Astoria that evening. There has never been any valid criticism against Memorial Hospital since Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton Halleck Cullum, granddaughter of Alexander Hamilton, founded the institution as a protest against those who considered cancer a vile, shameful disease. Mrs. Cullum laid the cornerstone of Memorial Hospital's first building at 106th Street and Central Park West, and died of cancer before the structure was finished...
Astor took risks with his money but he never deliberately wasted any. He prophesied the failure of a recently-opened hotel because the management put such large lumps of sugar in the sugar bowl. Poet Fitz-Greene Halleck who served as his confidential secretary for many years had once said to him: "Mr. Astor, of what use is all this money to you? I would be content to live upon a couple of hundreds a-year for the rest of my life, if I was only sure of it." Astor's will left him an annuity of $200. When...