Word: manly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Standing unobtrusively in the background at the signing ceremony was the man who next day became the first permanent chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Omar Nelson Bradley. Never before had the nation given one military man a post of such responsibility and influence...
...agree that the Spellman-Roosevelt controversy is extremely distasteful but only because a man of his stature would attempt, or rather condescend, to enlighten such an obvious publicity seeker...
...Mayflower Hotel musicians -a guitarist, a violinist, and an accordion player. "You're a little late," said Mrs. Hadley, who had been waiting for an hour at the St. Louis airport. Asked if they would elope, Barkley laughed and said, "There's only one reason for a man and woman to elope. That's if their mammy and pappy object...
Flying back to Paducah, Ky., they repaired to Barkley's rambling brick house, "Angles." At the buffet supper that night Barkley stayed close to Mrs. Hadley, grinned when his traveling minstrels serenaded her with St. Louis Blues ("St. Louis woman . . . Pulls that man roun' by her apron strings"). Next day, Mrs. Hadley sat next to him as he dedicated the Paducah airport as Barkley Field...
Handout. In New Orleans, a holdup man scooped in $45 from a gas station, then forced $10 on Attendant Nathaniel Young...