Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was no doubt about the candidate that 41-year-old Harold Stassen had in mind for the rebuilding job. The word had already been passed along by Lawyer Amos Peaslee, who managed Stassen's eastern campaign last spring: "Harold E. Stassen will be in the political picture in 1952 ... He will surely be in a topflight position among presidential potentials when the time comes for thinking about a successor to President Truman...
...Robert Murphy's intelligence for the U.S. State Department on General Henri Giraud proved faulty. A great deal of effort went into prying Giraud out of Vichy territory, only to have him insist on having Ike's job or none at all. Finally Giraud changed his mind...
...Dream of the Comb. To Nikolai Fedorovich, Galina had written: "I feel just as melancholy as you . . . There are always dreams passing through my mind. When I awake in the morning I look at your picture. I look at it 30 times a day. Without it my heart aches, and there is no rest for my soul...
...Bright Sunshine": "I am terribly worried and concerned about you. In my dream last night I saw a fine lady's comb with three teeth missing in the middle. I awoke with a single thought in my mind-what has happened...
Back in 1936, Mrs. Nieman is reputed to have had the University of Wisconsin in mind for her be quest, but decided on Harvard because of "radical tendencies" in the mid western school. They still blush in the Journal city room when the subject is mentioned...