Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reward for his political support, on the recommendation of Secretary of the Treasury, William H. Woodin, he was made Under Secretary of the Treasury. It was one of the shortest jobs he ever held. His legal mind did not approve of President Roosevelt devaluing the dollar, and he spoke out against it. Roosevelt fired him. In a ceremony of Treasury officials at the White House, at which Acheson himself was a stiff-faced participant, Roosevelt handed the Under Secretary's job over to Henry Morgenthau Jr., remarking pointedly that he hoped Morgenthau's loyalty would stand up under...
Between numbers, in a Los Angeles cafe called Omar's Dome, a Negro pianist mused over his keyboard. A phrase had strayed into his mind, and he was trying to fit a melody to it. Suddenly, "it came to me just as straight as could be." Pianist Harvey O. Brooks hummed his tune all the way home, wrote it out in 20 minutes. Then he put it away in a drawer...
...tabloid's customers raced on to read about five-year-old Gail Nicoletti, a front-page picture of health (see cut). Her demented father had thrown her and her brother from a 125-ft. bridge, then jumped himself. She had survived, though her mind had become blank. Now, the Daily News reported: MEMORY STIRS...
Vitamins & No Secrets. Rupp, a University of Kansas man, who doesn't mind being called "the most hated coach in Dixie," is an organizing genius. His enemies like to say that he hog-ties promising young talent developed back in the hills, puts shoes on them, and before anybody knows what is happening, they are Kentucky basketball stars...
While the committee tried to make up its mind, Commissioner Ewan Clague of the Bureau of Labor Statistics took a hard look at unemployment, which is now estimated at three million. He thought that the problem would not require federal action (e.g., public works projects) unless the total reached four to five million and was "sustained for some time." But he saw no sign of that now. The importance of the more-than-seasonal January slump, he said, cannot be gauged until the seasonal pickup in the spring. (The boom still had a good head of steam. Heavy construction awards...