Word: list
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soon as Marshall had finished, the committeemen began. If State wanted to meet Communist propaganda, why didn't it kick out the Communists on its own payroll? One of the members read off a list of Department employees who were under direct FBI suspicion, but who had not yet been fired. They brought up the name of a secretary with access to confidential memoranda, who had been hobnobbing with local Reds and the Soviet Embassy staff for months. State's only action, they said, had been to call in the secretary, ask her if she was a Communist...
Allen, who laughingly took himself out of the 1948 presidential race, made some prophecies: "Dewey will beat Taft and Vandenberg for the privilege of trying to beat Truman; it won't be easy." To the list of Democratic vice-presidential prospects, "I should add the generally overlooked name of Governor Mon Wallgren of Washington State; indeed I should place his name high on my list." (In Olympia, Wash., Governor Wallgren promptly announced that he would accept...
Although the traveling layoff bodes no good for the Bolles' sweepswingers, the entire Seattle entry list is aboard the train and forced to accept the same conditioning hazard. For this reason, prior physical conditioning will play a heavier role than usual; and before entraining, Bolles happily stated that his boys were in tip-top shape...
...office were two separate wickets. The system went farther: the few Negroes on the gold roll would never have dreamed of sending their children to the superior gold schools, though theoretically they had that right. Worst of all, it was practically impossible to move from the low-paid silver list to the privileged gold roll. After 43 years there are exactly 54 Panamanians on the gold roll...
...Chief J. Edgar Hoover briefly enjoyed a place on the "Best Fathers of the Year" list assembled by the American Mothers Committee, until the committee belatedly learned that he is a bachelor, scratched...