Word: potful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Deal hierarchy was more suspect by businessmen than Henry Agard Wallace. So when he moved in as Secretary of Commerce, he smartly laid low, concentrated on rejuvenating his department. Under the Roosevelt administration, the department, which had been ably organized by Herbert Hoover, had gone to pot. When Henry Wallace did speak up, he tried to pass as the new friend of businessmen (whom he had once implied were fascists). His technique: an imitation of Free Enterpriser Eric Johnson...
...evening in March, 1941, Mrs. Pauline Washburh, a greying, grandmotherly Manhattan widow, picked up her telephone and heard a pleasant voice say: "You're the winner of the Pot o' Gold. Congratulations! Your gift of $900 will arrive in 20 minutes...
...began, in effect: "Now, about that $180 tax. ..." Mrs. Washburn appealed to the U.S. tax court. Last week, nearly five years after she had spent the money, the court agreed that Mrs. Washburn was $180 better off for not particularly liking radio. Because she was not listening to the Pot o' Gold program, she was obviously not participating in the show. Therefore, said the Court, the $900 was clearly not a prize, but a tax-exempt gift...
From the stands, it seemed as if the Stahlen were working only one play, and using it over and over. Mariaschin would take the ball out, feed it to Champion, who would give it to Gray or Desci waiting in the bucket. From there it was pot luck, as the pivot man fed the ball to his forwards coming in for the layup. On these shots the Varsity had a deadly average of 100 percent: they missed them...
...with all its troubles Shanghai still has the optimism of the gambler who knows he is going to fill his flush and take the pot. One U.S. businessman bent my ear for half an hour with his troubles: lack of cooperation from the State Department, the Chinese "squeeze," Chinese undependability, etc. Then I asked him if the city had any future at all. He leaned over, gripped my shoulder and half whispered: "My boy, Shanghai is due for the biggest boom in history...