Word: list
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dewey told newsmen little they wanted to know. He used the moment for its psychological effect on the enemy. He exuded victory. Delegations had been calling on him all day. He rolled off a list: Oklahoma, Maine, Alabama, Indiana, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Oregon, Wyoming, Rhode Island. It was probably the high point of the war of nerves. "I have no understandings, arrangements, bargains or deals with anyone in the United States for anything," he said...
Lost Licenses. Sitting at a desk flanked by his top aides, Dewey and his "committee" canvassed the possibilities one by one. Said Dewey: "The longer we talked, the longer became the list of possible Vice Presidents. I listened to all of them, but I never expressed an opinion at any time...
Franklin D. Roosevelt's idea of the 23 most influential people in the U.S. was reported by René de Chambrun, who published in This Week a list the President had jotted down for him in 1940. Next-door neighbors on the list: Robert Taft and Henry Wallace. Among the missing: Harry Truman. Final name on the list: Mrs. F.D.R...
Kids were driving their parents crazy with it. Waitresses in jukebox joints were going frantic. The whole U.S. seemed to be gurgling itself silly with the laughing gassiness of a goofy song called Woody Woodpecker. Out only four weeks, Woody was already tops on Variety's list of the nation's most played jukebox tunes...
Last week, Dr. Beck was giving lessons in the new operation to two resident surgeons at Cleveland's Lakeside Hospital. They will start operating within two or three months on a waiting list of several hundred non-terminal patients...