Word: humidor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...headquarters since January-first, as commanding general, 21st Bomber Command, lately as commanding general, Twentieth Air Force. When he moved 1,500 ft. beyond the road to a cramped, three-man office he took with him a Lucite name plate, a box of cigars, a black walnut tobacco humidor, a letter opener made from a B-29 throttle by some of his boys in India long ago, and a leather folder containing pictures of his wife Helen and six-year-old daughter Jane, who wait in Lakewood, Ohio...
...labor of love, Calvin Coolidge was six years a-writing. Biographer Fuess read the letters Coolidge wrote, from schooldays on, to his father and stepmother (Col. John Coolidge kept them in a big mahogany cigar humidor); Mrs. Coolidge gave him personal documents, answered questions; he was permitted to ransack the Coolidge file of Frank W. Stearns, Boston department store tycoon and Coolidge's political deus ex machina; he talked to dozens who knew Coolidge. For his labors, Biographer Fuess has assembled more facts than did his livelier rival, William Allen White, whose Coolidge biography, A Puritan in Babylon...