Word: offs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Private Book. After graduation, he found no likely place in Virginia to set up a law practice, so he crossed over into West Virginia, settled in Clarksburg, and set out to run things. Elected to the State House of Delegates, he was made majority floor leader in his first...
The Army was so impressed with Johnson's ideas on personnel and purchasing that he was offered a majority on the spot. Johnson wasn't interested. He went back to Clarksburg, married Ruth Maxwell, one of the richest, prettiest girls in town, and took up where he had...
He moved into a handsome ten-room mansion in Clarksburg, puttered with a valuable collection of jade in his off-hours and tended two hutches of black & white squirrels. The two Johnson girls grew up and moved away.
The Prize. This time there was to be no slip-up when it came to the payoff. Louis Johnson raised the money for the campaign, when the Democratic Party treasury was at its lowest. It was a great political service and Fund Raiser Johnson knew what he wanted. Harry Truman...
The Next Step. Should the West, too want an economic arrangement? Allied views differed. Some ECAmericans, led by European ECA Chief Averell Harriman, believed East-West trade would bring more benefits to the West (in raw materials, less U.S. aid, loosening of the Russian hold on satellite nations, etc.) than...