Word: linen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opening day, Texas' Tom Connally, dressed in a rumpled linen suit, took the floor to begin the case for the North Atlantic Treaty. With no galleries to play to -in the old semicircular chamber where the Monroe Doctrine was first pronounced 126 years ago-Tom Connally went right to the point...
...took up residence in a suite at the Mayflower, which promptly became the scene of an all-night outpouring of liquid Puerto Rican fellowship. Next morning, nevertheless, Muñoz was up bright & early to begin a series of conferences. At noon, natty in a white linen suit, he called at the White House, emerged after half an hour to report that he had offered President Truman the use of Puerto Rico as a laboratory for experiments in Point 4 aid to undeveloped areas. In succeeding days, Muñoz had long talks with Secretary of the Interior "Cap" Krug...
Saloon Trade. Gump's got its Oriental flavor by an act of God. The store was founded during the Civil War by Solomon Gump, son of a Heidelberg linen merchant, who found gaudy, gold-crazy San Francisco too exciting to leave. He began making mirrors for saloons, and thanks to frequent gunplay, got plenty of profitable repeat business. He branched out and began furnishing the homes of California's new millionaires with Victorian-era "art treasures" from Europe...
...James A. Linen...
...College Social Affairs Committee, a loose association of House dance committee chairmen and other dignitaries, has been washing its intramural linen in public, and in the process has unwittingly revealed a number of significant if unsavory facts about itself...