Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With him went his military and naval aides. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, omnipresent Harry Hopkins. Overnight by train they went to Portsmouth. N. H. At the Navy's great base across the river at Kittery, Me. the President saw three new submarines on the ways, two more keels laid down, more men (6,000) at work than were there during World War I. Awaiting the party was the President's yacht Potomac. At Nahant, Mass, they paused for the President's first look at his newest (tenth) grandchild, two-month-old Haven Roosevelt (who declined...
...judge the practical force of Willkie sentiment stirring in the South. But there were seeds of a revolt against entrenched politics. To Wendell Willkie went hundreds of telegrams from Southern Democrats (see p. 14). In Richmond, Charleston, Atlanta, in Texas, Alabama, Florida, Arkansas, Tennessee, Willkie clubs sprang up overnight, formed by lifelong Democrats to back a Republican candidate...
...early 19303 a minor revolution occurred in the U. S. The Communist Party, having failed for years "to capture the masses," much to its own surprise "captured the intelligentsia." Almost overnight, writers, admen, publishers, newshawks, college professors, engineers, lawyers, heiresses, cinemactresses, vaudevillians began to call each other comrade and urge their Negro maids to attend Communist rallies on their nights off. This triumph brought special inconveniences in its train. Workers asked few questions. But the intelligentsia were the most inquisitive and prying converts the Marxists had ever made: they were in the habit of reading about every new ism they...
Three times in one day, Nominee Willkie telephoned defeated Tom Dewey. He chinned with Minnesota's Stassen, who had managed his convention floor forces in Philadelphia. He entertained Massachusetts' Congressman Joe Martin overnight. He saw and handshook a parade of state GOPoliticos-some of whom had fought him up to the last ballot at Philadelphia. For hours he was closeted with a steering committee of twelve G. O. P. National Committeemen...
...rids Rugby of Flashman but a reputation for talebearing turns him overnight from hero into pariah. Just as the resulting persecution about convinces Tom and the audience that Rugby is the English equivalent of Devil's Island, his faith in Dr. Arnold, brooding over the school with the promise of a better day, is rewarded...