Word: meads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From New York State alone came three ranking Democrats: Brooklyn's Borough President John Cashmore, State Chairman Paul Fitzpatrick, gubernatorial candidate Jim Mead, who was closeted with the President for a solid two hours (usual visitor's stay: about 15 minutes...
Last week the masculine stare of the Senate's Mead Committee fastened on a list of the haul. The committee had nothing against women, as such. It just wanted to know how much taxpayers' money shipbuilders had lavished on honorarious baubles. The million-dollar tally sheet, 130 pages long, did not tell who paid the bill. But the faces that launched 5,500 ships were a gold mine for gossipers...
...shipbuilders overlooked no one: Sophie Tucker, Mrs. Henry J. Kaiser, Elsa Maxwell, Madame Ivy Litvinov, the Dionne Quintuplets, Barbara Douglas Arnold, daughter of Planemaker Donald Douglas. For helping to launch the S.S. Mormacisle a $225 gold pin was given to Mrs. James M. Mead Jr., daughter-in-law of the Senate investigator himself...
Politicians of both parties agreed that Jim Mead would have to put on a whale of a show, with help from Mr. Truman, to beat Dewey. They also agreed the Lehman-Ives race would be close...
...Rastus" Corning is a captive of Albany's notorious O'Connell machine, but the convention stage managers built a whoop-it-up show around him, paraded him, Jim Mead and dignified Herbert Lehman around the hall in red jeeps, got set to make a drive for the veterans' vote...