Word: lew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more of the U.S. Behind him was only one minor incident to disturb hemispheric solidarity. At a high-brass dinner in the Mexican Embassy, freshly applied gilt had come off the chairs onto the formal bottoms of such U.S. dignitaries as Senators Vandenberg and Connally, Secretary of Labor Lew Schwellenbach...
Benny knew how to fight with his head. His most famed rival, Lew Tendler, claimed that Benny had talked him out of the title by whispering disconcerting things between punches. Benny's version: "He caught me over the eye with a left and I felt my knees going under me. I said, That was a good punch, Lew.' I said it in a friendly, matter-of-fact tone of voice and it put the fight on a different plane. Lew snarled, 'Never mind that stuff, come on and fight.' But I stuck out a restraining hand...
...Lew Schwellenbach it seemed like a good week for it. During the 20 months that he had been Secretary of Labor, when the Administration was trying to get along with Russia, he had never made a single public utterance about U.S. Communists. Then a fortnight ago Lew learned of the line the President was going to take. He confided some of his own ideas to Harry Truman. The day before the speech on Greece, Lew appeared before the House labor committee...
...Lew's childhood was spent in mining towns of Arizona and Mexico. He went east for his education at Amherst* and M.I.T. After five years in Arizona's mines, with time out for service in the state legislature, he moved up to Washington and the House of Representatives. He was there when F.D.R. met him and marked him for his Budget Director. Since 1934, he has been vice president of American Cyanimid, principal of Montreal's McGill University, and president of Mutual...
...England's biggest concern would be the new Ambassador's attitude toward her dollar difficulties. If the British remembered F.D.R.'s remark that Douglas seemed more concerned with dollars than humanity, if they were concerned over his dislike for a controlled economy, they could stop worrying. Lew Douglas was an internationalist first, a "hardmoney" man second. Said he: "England is a good risk. But it will be a sorry, sorry day ultimately for this nation when we condition our loans solely on whether they are good risks...