Word: hat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chuckled as he talked: "... I hope some of the scribes in the papers won't intimate that I expect to make Washington my permanent residence. . . ." He talked extemporaneously for three minutes, with the rain beginning to drip from the brim of his grey campaign hat. "This is a very wonderful welcome home ... a welcome I shall always remember...
...through the White House gates at 9:30 in a steady downpour. The crowds, sodden and silent after their moment of excitement, jostled slowly toward trolley-loading platforms, the masses of Government workers going back to their offices. Inside the Executive Mansion the President shed his dripping coat and hat and immediately went to his office for a press conference. The President's good humor had a steady, coal-grate glow this morning. The conference began with a burst of laughter. Franklin Roosevelt had just informed the men in the front row that he had no news-and they...
...from Washington State's First District is young Hugh De Lacy, 34, ex-college instructor and left-winger, who once called the draft a "fascist-like measure." Now a shipyard worker, De Lacy methodically changed clothes after work each day to campaign, because, he said, dungarees and tin hat "limit your appeal...
Headstrong. In Manhattan, at a U.S. Customs Service auction, an unidentified man bid 25? for a toupee, won it, insisted it was for a friend, walked out of the room without removing his hat...
...chair last week. Up in the border constituency of Berwick, famed Sir William Beveridge, the Liberals' greatest catch in years, had just wiped the hustings with his by-election opponent, Farmer William Donald Clark. It was not much of a fight. White-haired Farmer Clark passed round the hat at his meetings. White-haired Sir William explained his famed social-security plan, already somewhat dated by the Conservative Woolton Plan (TIME, Oct. 9) which Sir William has endorsed. Sir William's majority...