Word: pullerisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...name was Lewis Burwell Puller, and leathernecks around the world have a special patent of excellence for him. "Chesty" Puller, one of the Corps' most famed field officers, is more than a good marine-he is known as a great marine...
Most active wire-puller against Lewis was foxy Daniel J. Tobin, head of the Federation's biggest union, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Stablemen & Helpers. Tobin is not without his own A.F. of L. presidential ambitions, has long been the Democrats' Hutcheson. On behalf of his good friend Franklin Roosevelt and of himself, Tobin wants to keep Lewis isolated...
...from the Americas in presenting credentials to Foreign Minister Aranha, paying a courtesy call on President Vargas. He talked with early Argentine delegates. He had a look at the site of the coming meetings-historic Tiradentes Palace, named for Brazil's revolutionary hero, a dentist (tiradente means "tooth-puller") who was hanged by the Portuguese 150 years ago and his body quartered and sent in brine as a warning to all parts of the country...
...followings: the brand-new Washington Lions, managed by Ching Johnson, onetime Ranger star; the Philadelphia Rockets, managed by Danny Cox, another famed old Ranger; the Springfield (Mass.) Indians, not only managed but owned by Eddie Shore, the bruising old Boston Bruin, for more than a decade the biggest crowd puller of them...
...celebrate: they had just paid off a $3,000,000 motgage. For this they could thank hockey and boxing, Garden mainstays for the past 15 years. They could also thank college basketball, built up by a young Manhattan sportswritter name Ned Irish into the Garden's best crowd-puller...