Word: punkinhead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Franklin Roosevelt seemed indeed to be spoiling for a fight. When Newscaster Earl ("Punkinhead") Godwin-who always sits beside the President's desk and is a press conference favorite-brought up the subject of the Montgomery Ward seizure (TIME, May 8), the President replied that he knew someone would ask that question, someone looking for trouble. Meekly, Earl Godwin demurred that he was not looking for anything of the kind. But the President was prepared: in his hands he held a brief, typewritten history of the Montgomery Ward battle...
...Washington correspondents, Godwin is known as Punkinhead and The End Man (because he was the one who always ended White House press conferences with a "Thank you, Mr. President...
Both sentimental and pennywise, Punkinhead is keeping his $100-a-week morning broadcast as well as his new $200-a-day Ford contract. Ford doesn't expect him to turn back $40 a week...
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