Word: minded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME'S Southern-born footnote editor mind his memories...
...Fanny Brice disagrees. Her version: In 1915 a songwriter named Blanche Merrill did a vaudeville sketch for Fanny called "Poor Little Moving-Picture Baby," a burlesque on one of the child stars of the period. Fanny kept this character in mind for 15 years. About 1930 she suggested it to Moss Hart, who wrote a skit for Sweet & Low about an infant known simply as "Babykins." This was, in effect, the first Snooks script. Billy Rose may well have helped Hart, says Fanny...
...more than political fortunes were at stake in the President's action. The Republican majority, put on its fighting mettle by the President's veto of both labor and tax bills, was less than ever in a frame of mind to accept Harry Truman's pronouncement that any piece of legislation was good, or bad for the country. The battle of Congress v. President, Republican v. Democrat, which would grow increasingly bitter, might stalemate some legislation still to be completed. The nation's foreign policy, already shaky on its bipartisan foundation, was an immediate case...
...Henry Wallace: "Henry would like to run for President. However, I'd rather have a fellow like Ickes . . . Ickes will go through with whatever he has in mind. But you never know what Henry will...
...Laguerre summed it up: "The fear that Americans may not back Marshall to the limit is the only factor tempering the enthusiasm of French opinion-just as the fear that the D-day landings in 1944 might not be successful added anxiety to that great news. In the French mind, the two events can be compared without injustice...