Word: joshing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...totaling 2,230 pages Lanny has played Master of Ceremonies for a mammoth floorshow version of 20th-century history, and in the fourth he is still one of the most adroit and likable quick-change artists in the profession. He can beard Basil Zaharoff with tips from The Beyond, josh Hermann Goring, rip off a bit of Beethoven for "Adi" Schicklgruber, rescue a beautiful Social Democrat from "Naziland" and an intrepid young Briton from the Spanish Fascists. He can carom all over "this old continent" (Europe) in his high-powered roadster, keeping dates with the major crises of his time...
...ambassador and envoy to Australia and the Far East, was morally questionable, disregarding his capacity for such a post. Had his nomination been confirmed, the Australian government would have found itself in the humiliating position of having to tolerate a man it never could respect. Second, ex-Senator Josh Lee, wholly unqualified for the job, was confirmed through "senatorial courtesy" to a position on the Civil Aeronautics Board at a time when its efficiency can be seriously impaired by "dead-head" members. On the basis of capability alone, the only basis which should be considered for the present, both...
...Washington last week President Roosevelt reappointed Iowa farm-born Lloyd Welch Pogue chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board. Coming on the heels of the highly political CAB appointment of ex-Senator Josh Lee of Oklahoma, Pogue's reappointment was reassuring. For Pogue, a specialist in aviation law (Harvard), is no patronage-loving politician. He is a man who believes in a principle: that freedom of the air to competing air transport companies of all nations is just as important as freedom of the seas...
...Democratic Party not only had trouble at the top (see p. 14); it faced a pressing down-the-line problem: finding snug berths for party members defeated in November. President Roosevelt started the ball rolling by naming Oklahoma's silver-tongued Senator Josh Lee, who had performed many a New Deal chore, to the Civil Aeronautics Board. It mattered little whether Mr. Lee knows much about aviation ; the rules of the game made him eligible for an early good...
...global war thrown on such a heterogeneous group of men & women. Some future Reveille in Washington will record the solemn manner in which Franklin Roosevelt asked for a declaration of war, the triumphant grin on Poll-Taxer Theodore Bilbo's face, the specter of Prohibition unearthed by Josh Lee, the invective poured out by Montana's Burton Wheeler, the ringing periods of Visitor Winston Churchill's oration in the House Chamber, the turbulent, sweaty, exhausting, endless, day-by-day job of 531 men & women dealing with the nation's war. And historians will reach their...