Word: plugger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...traditional G.O.P. Lincoln's Day dinners, House Minority Leader Joseph Martin once again plugger for a favorite cause of the Republican Old Guard--more military aid for Chiang Kai-shek. Martin argued that Chiang would open a second front on the Chinese mainland if the United States supplied him with planes, tanks, trucks, ships, and ammunition. This country should have learned by now that arms and reaction can't win the loyalty of the Chinese people. Beyond this, it is also a stupid business to force a ruler upon a country whose people have already rejected...
Last week the Canadian government upset the dope. Finance Minister Douglas Abbott, a plugger for free enterprise, managed to convince the cabinet that Canada should try the free-dollar theory, to unpeg her dollar altogether and let the price fluctuate according to the demand for Canadian funds...
...songwriter-plugger for Jack Mills, Inc., Sammy filled in the gaps on radio stations between soap operas. "I'd finish a spot on WMCA or WHN and want to go home for dinner and the boss would say, 'Sammy, run over to WPCH like a good boy and knock out a couple of songs.' I'd go through blizzards with a sandwich in one hand. No wonder I wound up with double pneumonia every year. Ya know," he reminisces, "George Gershwin was also a song plugger in those days. But to be perfectly honest, he didn...
...would bow out as special counsel to the President. And 40-year-old Charles Murphy, a poker-faced North Carolinian, would bow in. The White House was generally saddened at Clifford's departure. "It's a terrible loss," said a Truman intimate. "Charlie Murphy is a hard plugger but he lacks Clifford's flair and imagination. The rest of us will just have to try and supply Charlie with what he lacks." But otherwise the mechanism of Harry Truman's efficient Little Cabinet just ticked along...