Word: pocketer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Explicit Backing. The new Sino-Russian treaty in Chiang's pocket, dropped there by Premier Soong's masterly diplomacy in Moscow (and presumably by hardheaded Russian evaluation of Chinese Communist strength vis-a-vis Central Government strength), brought the "political solution" near realization...
...tickets to The Voice of the Turtle, the man whose name was on every ticket lay in a Los Angeles morgue. Morosco had died at 69 under the wheels of a streetcar in the city where he first made good. He was dressed in a threadbare suit. In his pocket was eight cents...
...purchases in the U.S. But Russia never got the loan. In its first two years, E.I.B. made just two important loans-$13 million to Cuba, and $673,000 to finance tobacco exports to Spain. Jesse Jones, the RFC chairman, cracked that he could carry its business in his vest pocket. E.I.B. was a dull place...
When the vote was announced, 70% of the delegates were for fusion. But now that he had the profusion majority vote in his pocket, shrewd Pietro Nenni remarked that there was really no hurry about fusion, that Socialists must first make sure that the Communists would not swallow them...
Treaty of Friendship. While Chiang grappled with "open rebellion," his brother-in-law, Premier T. V. Soong, hurried from the Kremlin to the White House. On & off since early July, he had been talking in Moscow with Generalissimo Joseph Stalin and Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov. In his pocket Premier Soong carried a signed treaty of friendship and alliance between Russia and China...