Word: holderness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ford, holder of the world record in the 100-yard event, nosed out Macfadden in the 50 in 22.9 seconds, tieing the accepted national collegiate mark and shattering the Harvard pool record set by Charley Hutter...
...brief service over. Vice President Henry Wallace gravely shook the President's hand. When the President returned to the executive offices, photographers were waiting. He grouped his faithful secretaries and military aide about his desk and posed for anniversary pictures. Then, putting his cigaret holder in his mouth at a rakish angle, jutting his chin forward, in the pose cartoonists use, he said: "Let's make one this way, boys." Franklin Roosevelt was putting on his "stern face." The result (see cut) showed what a remarkable resemblance the President, now 61, bears to his late mother...
Constant association with politicos has given 39-year-old Fulton Lewis many of their mannerisms. He indulges in deep senatorial guffaws, interminable telephone calls; gives his autograph freely and smokes his incessant cigarets in a long black holder. He loves his job, admits it is a cinch compared to newspaper reporting. He looks forward to the day when he will not have to move off his farm to do his broadcasts. Lacking the informed balance of an Elmer Davis or a Raymond Gram Swing, he has usually avoided international expertizing, has relied on his flair for exploiting home-front issues...
Foreseeing difficulties arising out of the fact that stamp number 17 in book one is for shoes, Durant announced that whenever a book-holder wished to buy shoes, he could retrieve his book, providing that it be returned after the stamp had been used...
Last week the gale broke in a whistling fury, beat around the doors of the White House, whipped in & out of WPB, OWI, OPA and many another Federal agency, chilled the neck of every power-wielding office holder. Prominent Democrats rode the crest of it, outdoing Republicans in bureau-baiting and defiance of Government-by-executive-edict...