Word: overset
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pistol-packing cops, the daily schedule ticks off with military precision. First come Leon Stolz with his squad of editorial writers, and Carey Orr with his crew of highly skilled cartoonists, to hear the orders of the day. The discussion often goes into luncheon at the 19th floor Overset Club, the executives' dining room...
...Overset Club can seldom toast an unqualified political victory these days. Against McCormick's advice, Chicago and Illinois went for F.D.R. all four terms. Today, as the state's No. 1 GOPoohbah, the undaunted Colonel is embarrassing his party's national leadership with lavish gifts of his time, thought and peremptory advice. He is scheming to capture the state delegation to Philadelphia in 1948, if not the convention itself. He has already cut down most presidential timber, thinks General MacArthur "the only successful man in public life today...
...lunch, in a private dining room called the Overset Club, the Colonel gathers around him Tribune executives (and an occasional big advertiser or politician), again soliloquizes while the McCormick-dyed listeners await his cue to begin their meal...