Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Presidential Priorities. It developed that John's old friend, Major General Harry Vaughan, the presidential military aide, had dashed off wads of letters on White House stationery to get John and his business associates transportation, visas, and help from U.S. officers abroad. Before one wartime perfume-buying trip just after V-E day, Harry Vaughan informed the State Department that the President himself was "personally interested" in Pal John's travels-a suggestion which enabled John to go to Europe with a top priority I-D rating...
...dozens of members had already gone home. It was necessary to ask the other house's permission for adjournment, but it was traditional for permission to be given. But last week, by a vote of 58 to 25, the Senate sulkily ordered the House to stick around and help clear up the snarl of bills still wedged tight in conference committee. Then, Senators began arguing among themselves about responsibility for their own delays...
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...
Trunks Extra? In Washington, the ICC recommended that the ferry line between Weehawken, N.J. and Manhattan help meet higher operating costs by increasing the fare for uncrated elephants from...
...dining room one evening, and thereby briefly set the Empire on its ear. Since it appears that something like this did happen once upon a time, Author Bonnet's job in The Mudlark was to fluff up the fact into a light historical novel. This, with the help of a lot of imaginary speeches and caperings by the Queen, William Gladstone and Benjamin Disraeli, he has done well enough...