Word: peppering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chambers gave a list of men he described as members of the apparatus. Three of them-John Abt (of Henry Wallace's Progressive Party), Victor Perlo (Wallace leader and onetime key worker for the War Production Board), and Charles Kramer (onetime researcher for Florida's Senator Claude Pepper and West Virginia's Harley Kilgore)-were among those previously named by Courier Elizabeth Bentley TIME, Aug. 9). Chambers had other names: Lee Pressman, onetime New Deal legal eagle, later C.I.O. counsel and currently one of Henry Wallace's left-hand men; Nathan Witt, onetime secretary...
Next day the word "Eisenhower" was stripped from posters in the headquarters' windows; in its place went the word "Pepper"-painted in red-just under the words "The People's Choice for President." But Claude Pepper was not even the choice of his own Florida delegation...
...faltered. But the statement contained one phrase: "I will not-at this time . . ." Quite possibly he meant: "Not in 1948, boys." Democrats, clutching at straws, could read it: "Not on Monday but maybe on Thursday, if I still hear a call." Almost immediately, Florida's glib Senator Claude Pepper made what was meant to be the most dramatic proposal...
Last Wail. Let the Democrats nominate Ike as a nonpartisan, cried Pepper. Let Ike write his own platform, pick his own running mate. Let him be a "national" President, free to choose anyone, Democrat or Republican, for his administration. In short, let Ike go before the country as a Man-on-Horseback-who would, incidentally, carry the rachitic Democratic Party to safety...
Matty likes the prospects. His company will take a 5% cut on every ton of goods that it moves. First haul in sight: $170 million worth of rubber, tin, pepper, tapioca, etc., already stockpiled and ready for shipment as soon as the Dutch lift their economic blockade against the islands...