Word: raiser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...curtain-raiser, Alfred DeMusset's "A Door Must be Open or Shut," will precede the main production. Casting for the 15 minute comedy will take place next week...
...gave way to hobble skirts; middy blouses came & went. Meanwhile, President "Princess Alice" Freeman, who first organized the college into 14 departments, resigned to marry a Harvard professor. After her came Mathematician Helen A. Shafer, who set up the system of majors, and portly Caroline Hazard, the great money-raiser, who surveyed her campus from a surrey with a fringe...
...Spotlight. In this kind of atmosphere came the explosion on the floor of Congress last week. Louis Johnson's enemies thought they had found two vulnerable places to attack him: he had moved into the Pentagon from a strictly political post as Harry Truman's money raiser; he had resigned his directorship in Consolidated Vultee just three days after he was nominated for the office which must decide the future of Consolidated's controversial...
...Prize. This time there was to be no slip-up when it came to the payoff. Louis Johnson raised the money for the campaign, when the Democratic Party treasury was at its lowest. It was a great political service and Fund Raiser Johnson knew what he wanted. Harry Truman made a few halfhearted attempts to fob him off with offers of the sub-Cabinet Army secretaryship or the Court of St. James's. But Louis Johnson stood fast. The weekend after his inauguration, President Harry Truman let Louis Johnson know that the prize was his at last...
Perle is go-getting and able in her own way. She is a money-raiser extraordinary. At Harry Truman's request, she hustled her checkbook out to Kansas City in 1946, saved the day for his campaign to purge his home-town Congressman, Roger Slaughter. As co-chairman of last year's Jefferson-Jackson Day dinners, she raised $250,000, kept at it doughtily during the campaign. Declared Louis Johnson, chairman of the Democratic Finance Committee: "When our crowd got discouraged, Perle Mesta would raise hell. She called us men of little faith. She was a tonic...