Word: letting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Louis' gloomy, cavernous Union Station, 10,000 people pushed and shouted for a look at him, but many were blocked in the concourse by glass doors. Through a microphone on the rear platform, Harry Truman shouted: "Let the people behind those bars get in if they want to. Open the gates! Open the gates...
...Every Perch. Washington, which months ago had abandoned Harry Truman to the Dewey landslide, now pulled itself together fast. It was set to stage one of the biggest of its conquering heroes' welcomes. Government workers and schoolchildren were let out for the event; hours before the President's train arrived, every perch and post on the hero's highway of Pennsylvania Avenue was taken. Police estimated the crowd...
Another hint came from Treasury Secretary John Snyder, who had let it be known that he was anxious to get back to a better-paying job in private life. Other Cabinet shifts were in the wind. At the behest of the President, Secretary of State George Marshall had again & again deferred his retirement. White House aides let the word drop that the President might now reluctantly let him go-and Under Secretary Robert Lovett with him. Among Democratic politicos there was little doubt that the ax was sharp for Army Secretary Kenneth Royall, who had remarked that Harry Truman...
...85th birthday. In the place of New Jersey's Fred Hartley as chairman of the Labor Committee will be Michigan's liberal John Lesinski. Chairmanship of the Un-American Activities Committee will return to Georgia's John S. Wood, who, following past form, will probably let Mississippi's ranting John Rankin run the show...
...harried Manhattan bus driver cried: "Folks, they say we had a miracle in the election of President Truman. Now let's show them a real miracle. Let's all move to the rear of the bus." When, incredibly, the passengers moved, the driver broke into God Bless America...