Word: m
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...without baiting a hook, Harry Truman got what he had been fishing for for months-the pledged campaign support of organized labor. In Chicago, the A.F.L.'s paladins met, formed the Committee of Labor Executives for the Re-election of Truman. George M. Harrison of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks declared that all "but two or three" presidents of A.F.L. internationals would join.* This week, the C.I.O. executive board threw its full weight to the Democratic ticket. As an added fillip, the A.D.A., which had done its best to displace the President at Philadelphia, pledged him its support. Harry...
...over New Jersey, police were looking for him: Henry M. Brooks, 61, described on the teletype as "6 ft. 1, heavyset, squarejawed, with iron-grey hair and heavy mustache." For 30 years, Brooks had been a respected citizen of Greenwich, Conn, and a well-known figure in Wall Street. He was a member of the Indian Harbor Yacht Club, a Harvard...
...letter was nearly done. "It is said that in the last moments of one's life one thinks of all the bad things. I feel better in that I had my wish in learning of your safe return to Greenwich -you were so wonderful-understanding -I'm glad the newspapers gave you a decent report ... I can perhaps feel that as my last thoughts didn't turn up a lot of bad that I wasn't too bad in life . . . which God knows is more than bad enough." He added a postscript, "What a nice stamp...
...congress received a message from G. B. Shaw, who said: "I never send messages. This is final. I'm sure Albert Einstein could say everything about peace but I can't. Messages are boring...
...party in the evening, Grandma's birthday next week will probably be like other days. "I got in the habit now of waking up at 6 o'clock," she says. "I hear my son up, splittin' the kindlin' wood downstairs. I wait till I'm sure he's got the coffee made, then I come down about 7. I just eat a piece of bread for breakfast, then I carry some coffee upstairs, and paint. In the afternoon I take a nap so when evenings come and the young folks come...