Word: ll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Goldwyn: Sure, that'll cost you $6,000. And it'll have to come off your...
...strong, his tone assertive. He was a new, militant Harry Truman. "Never in the world were the farmers ... as prosperous [as now] . . . and if they don't do their duty by the Democratic Party they're the most ungrateful people in the world . . . And I'll say to labor just what I've said to the farmers...
After his nomination, Alben Barkley talked informally about his service in the Senate with Harry Truman. Said he: "We're teammates now, and after the election we'll still be a team, in there pitching with the catcher understanding the signs of the pitcher, whether it will be a slow drop or a chin cutter...
...House Majority Leader Charles Halleck in Rensselaer, Ind.; to Speaker Joe Martin at his summer home in Sagamore, Mass.; to other top Republican strategists. When Joe Martin finally spoke up, it was to warn: "There will be plenty of action. Like the boys at Bunker Hill, we'll wait to see the whites of their eyes...
Beau Jack, the Negro shoeshine boy from Georgia, had earned about $500,000 in the ring and kept almost none of it. Recently he blew in the last big chunk on a flashy new car, but insisted "I'll be all right." For he was the Golden Boy, who drew more cash customers into Madison Square Garden than any fighter living. He had twice won & lost the lightweight crown. No fighter had ever knocked him down for the full count...