Word: inked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some 17,000 names were carefully set down by Hague's 311 district leaders, with appropriate comments by gumshoeing ward heelers. The name of every city, state and county employee was underlined in red ink. Devoted Democrats on the approved list were ticked off with a terse "O.K." Waverers were put on the list for attention: "Need tax reduction here when, possible." But anyone rash enough to buck the machine got more extensive treatment...
...that many of the individual scenes aren't funny. Chief among these is a takeoff of the Ink Spots in which Kaye sings all four parts in different voice ranges and in four separate bodies at the same time...
Charlie Murphy arrived in Washington 15 years ago with the ink on his law degree still fresh. He went to work in the Senate legislative counsel's office writing bills in proper legal language. One of his chores was the resolution creating Senator Truman's wartime investigating committee. Some time after Mr. Truman became President, he remembered Charlie Murphy and took him into the White House as one of a dozen devotedly anonymous aides. Murphy was so anonymous that the White House Correspondents Association completely overlooked him last year when they issued invitations to the annual dinner...