Word: hand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...small steak for breakfast, then pulled a chair up to a coffee table near a fieldstone fireplace to work for an hour or so with Press Secretary James Hagerty. Not all the work was trivial, but neither was it lengthy or taxing, e.g., the President's hand was evident in the latest "summit conference" letter to Russia; he gave final approval to the strong foreign-trade message issued last week, made changes in a foreign-aid speech to be delivered this week. A few times, Personal Secretary Ann Whitman dropped by to take a little dictation. Perhaps twice...
...have to make this a news event to write about") that they wrote waspishly of his carelessness with his 20-gauge shotgun. A welltrained man with small arms, he gestured with his piece without seeming to bother about where it pointed, sat in the hunting car with his hand over its muzzle...
Setting out to battle tariff lobbies, Convert Weeks put Commerce Department staffers to work drafting a series of studies detailing the beneficial effects of foreign trade in 120 different Congressional districts. As of last week, ten studies had been completed and hand-delivered by Commerce Department officials to the ten. Congressmen from the districts covered. Studying Commerce's brochure on Connecticut's First District (machinery-manufacturing Hartford), the district's Republican Representative Edwin Hyland May Jr. made up his mind to vote for the Administration bill...
...last week Ed Ragsdale surprised everyone. From his Flint, Mich, office he called McCann-Erickson's President Marion Harper, whom he had met only once, and told him to hustle out. As Harper walked into the office, Ragsdale stuck out his hand and said: "Marion, we like your agency best...
Died. Helen Twelvetrees (Payne), fiftyish, oldtime Hollywood leading lady (to such stars as John Barrymore, Robert Taylor, Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy), who played in State's Attorney, Disgraced, The Ghost Talks; by her own hand (an overdose of barbiturates); at Olmsted Air Force Base, near Harrisburg...