Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when Mr. Truman comes out for socialized medicine, then the Republican Party has an issue on which to put up a real battle. And we've got to let the people know that we want decentralization of government and make them see why home rule is vital for this country . . . We found in New Jersey that if we were to have a winning team we had to stand for something...
...undying loyalty to the Fair Deal by covering nearly 26,000 miles in 1948 as advance man for the Truman campaign train. A teetotaler, Chapman at a White House gathering was once asked by Franklin Roosevelt, "Oscar, mix us a drink," and had to confess he did not know how. The President pretended to be vexed: "I can't have anyone in my little Cabinet who doesn't know how to mix a Martini." Earnest, literal-minded Oscar Chapman had to be assured later that the boss was just kidding...
...cracked the system which had cleared 9,000,000 transcontinental passengers without a stowaway. He was hauled off to a children's shelter, got 50? from a St. Louis cop en route, and shipped home the following day to his widowed mother, who was not amused. "You know," Artie told reporters who met him at La Guardia, "I'll probably get spanked for this...
...last week, the note was still unanswered, and Washington still did not know what to do. Such shilly-shallying in the face of Peiping's provocation stirred the good, grey New York Times to red-hot anger, which was shared by more & more Americans. Wrote the Times: "Able, honest, faithful and diligent public servants have been stranded in Communist China by our Micawber Far Eastern policy . . . We cannot afford, if we want to retain a shred of prestige anywhere in Asia, to let men such as Angus Ward . . . suffer any further contumely as martyrs to our inability to decide...
...Walter Giblin, wife of a Manhattan broker and a two-day-a-week volunteer worker at Memorial Cancer Center for the last eight months, had worked out a stock and true answer for patients who tell her: "You know, you look just like Constance Talmadge, the silent movie star." Mrs. Giblin's answer: "That's good, because...