Word: neveral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thing is sure; never in the history of mankind has a man been presented with such vital responsibility, nor such a great opportunity to go down in history as Man of the Century...
...saved money in the White House. But in the final year of the Hoover Administration, Congress made all governmental salaries, including the President's, taxable. By 1944 taxes took more than half of the President's salary. In his twelve years in the White House, Franklin Roosevelt never got out of the red, but he had his own and his mother's fortune to fall back...
...with the man Harry Truman had picked for his Secretary of State. That a Senate committee should, for the first time in history, hold an open hearing on a new Secretary of State was an expression of some doubt about Dean Acheson-but it was a doubt that was never clearly defined, nor forcefully defended. Obviously, in an open hearing, Acheson could not talk about top-level policy. But the Senate committee did want to hear about the international affairs of Acheson's affluent Washington (D.C.) law firm, did want him to say again that he had no love...
...against oldtime G.O.P. Sheriff Martin Pratt last November (slogan: "A G.I. Who Believes in Democracy"), he said he was 30, had played football at the University of Michigan, and had served 6½ years in the Marines. After Mike won, a checkup showed that he was 27, that he never went to the University of Michigan, and that he served only 23 months in the Marines. "I didn't mean anything wrong." Mike explained. "It was just one of those things in a campaign. I just needed some real material to beat Pratt...
August Simolke was never one for dramatics. He was 67, tall, skinny, bald and unassuming. He had been married for 44 years, had fathered 11 children. He worked in a Chicago baby furniture factory, and was a good provider for his worried-looking 62-year-old wife, Jennie. Nevertheless, last summer, August Simolke did quite a dramatic thing-after a quarrel with his foreman, he walked off his job and vanished...