Word: pets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coincidence. Thus went the White House campaign to strip the visit of all political significance. But at the same time, the U. S. press blossomed with inspired stories (quoting "high officials," "unimpeachable sources") attacking the motives and personality of General de Gaulle. Pet reporters of the State Department and the White House were called in and given confidential tips...
...crippling amendments. In one long, fierce, exhausting session the House made a shambles of the Administration's whole subsidy and price-control program, wiped out the domestic bureau of Elmer Davis' OWI and the National Youth Administration, and, as a final stab, killed the President's pet little bureau, the National Resources Planning Board (which is headed by his uncle, Frederic A. Delano). The "killings" were tentative, since the Senate must concur, but it is unlikely that the House will give...
...Notable was the fact that the one agency to come through with a whole skin was Henry Wallace's pet bureau, the Board of Economic Warfare, whose head, Milo Perkins, has been sedulous in heeding Congressional advice and complaints and in explaining clearly and sensibly to Congress just what he is trying...
Politician v. Administrator. If Harold Smith, in his unique position, were a politician, he would inevitably become one of Washington's most hated men. The secret of Smith's freedom from enemies is that he is not a politician. Other officials resent him when he disrupts their pet schemes, lops their funds and authority. But their anger quickly cools. They know and respect him for what he is: a professional administrator, with no political ambitions, no special interests to serve, no social reforms to promote...
...modest $500,000) are 50% Mexicans, 50% U.S. citizens, but its president is 100%-Mexican Salvador Ugarte, who also heads Mexico City's potent Banco de Comercio. Its purpose is to find ways of investing the long-term capital of both countries in productive Mexican enterprise; its pet project is to help U.S. corporations establish branch plants that will be 50% Mexican-owned. Said Charlie Glore last week, understating the case for his corporation: "Business in Mexico is going to be small for some time ... it has to grow...