Word: hat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President always heeds the campaign advice of New York's shrewd little Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. Last week "The Hat," as he is known in New York, was a White House luncheon guest. A few hours later, in Manhattan, bumbling Bob Hannegan, Democratic national chairman, announced that the President would tour New York City. Said Hannegan: "After the people have seen him, they can make up their own minds about his vigor and health...
...seat at Toots Shor's Manhattan restaurant). This Roosevelt trip-perhaps the most crucial in his political career-had to be handled by professionals. New York's 47 electoral votes were at stake, and few men know the strategy of capturing those votes better than The Hat...
...Hat took over, and in moved the C.I.O.'s potent P.A.C., which has replaced Tammany as a power in Manhattan politics. All leaves and vacations were canceled for New York's 15,000 policemen. To the members of New York's garment, clothing and furriers unions-usually off on Saturdays-went orders: be on hand to greet the President, rain or shine...
...raised it again & again to the crowds. Sometimes there were cheers, and sometimes little more than the swish of heavy tires on the wet asphalt streets. Some people caught sight of his infectious grin, some never saw him at all. Most got a bare glimpse of a lifted hat, a waved...
...Vice President "Cactus Jack" Garner, the copilot whom Franklin Roosevelt had dropped in 1940. John Garner, now 75, was wearing a worn work shirt, buttoned at the throat, a pair of dingy pants. There was an outrageous twisted rope of cigar between his teeth and a faded ten-gallon hat pushed back on his white hair. His old friend from the U.S. Senate stepped down, rushed forward, hand outstretched. Old Jack Garner clapped him on the back, beaming: "I'm glad to see you, Harry, bless your old soul...