Word: iii
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...refused to help him in his program for national defense. Who was the man? Gossip sizzled. The President would not tell. Washington wisemen thought it must have been Alf Landon, who had reportedly turned down a Cabinet job when the President refused to commit himself on Term III...
...last week this was the excuse he used in submitting his resignation to Franklin Roosevelt. According to Wasington observers, the untied shoestring he tripped on was his tactless handling of Democratic bigwigs at the Convention in Chicago. Harry Hopkins, it was said, would be more useful promoting Term III from a less conspicuous place; the resignation of Under Secretary Ed Noble (to follow Willkie's banner) precipitated the need for an overhauling in the Commerce Department. Nobody, in or out of Washington, supposed that Mr. Hopkins' resignation was a surprise to the President. Franklin Roosevelt warmly wrote back...
Said bossy Julie to Marshall Field III, president of the U. S. Committee for the Care of European Children, who sponsored the evacuees: "Mister, kneel kindly. I've a kiss for you and the fancy lights of the New World...
Knight of the Bath Benito Mussolini and Knight of the Garter Vittorio Emanuele III were gazetted out of their British Orders of Chivalry last week by King George VI, along with other Italian bigwigs, German smallwigs. There were few German bigwigs to be dropped, since most of these were purged from the royal British rolls in 1915 along with Kaiser Wilhelm...
...organization of the packinghouse workers in Chicago's stockyards. Last winter the Bishop did some organizing himself. Last week at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel the directors of Bishop Sheil's Industrial Areas Foundation (who include John L. Lewis' daughter Kathryn, Merchant-Philanthropist Marshall Field III, the U. S. State Department's G. Rowland Shaw) held their first board meeting...