Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sample: Dewey had cited a paragraph in an official report by the President's uncle, Frederic Delano, which favored keeping the boys in the Army, as an example of the Washington thinking that led to General Lewis Hershey's unfortunate remark that "We can keep people in the Army about as cheaply as we can create an agency for them when they are out." In fact, the full text of "Uncle Freddie's" report ended up by recommending speedy demobilization. But while the Democrats were getting to their feet to shout "I object," Prosecutor Dewey was attacking...
Later Italians had second thoughts about the Churchill-Roosevelt declaration. And they were cool, too, to the news that General Giovanni di Raimondo had been invited to London for transportation talks, Banker Enrico Scaretti to Washington for Red Cross consultations. A common remark was: "Yes, that's very nice. Now let's wait and see what really happens...
Whose Depression? Some Republican had made some remark about a "Roosevelt depression." This, Mr. Roosevelt thought, was laughable indeed: "I rubbed my eyes when I read it." Eloquently he recreated the Hoover breadlines, the apple stands, the "Hoovervilles," thus carrying on the New Deal's attack on Herbert Hoover into its twelfth successful year. This Republican prating about depression reminded him forcibly of an old adage which Republicans should keep in mind: "Never speak of a rope in the house of a man who's been hanged." In fatherly tones, Mr. Roosevelt offered the G.O.P. some advice...
Johnson also originated the prototype of the famous remark about Thomas E. Dewey credited, curiously enough, to his friends.*A friend of Johnson asked him of a mutual acquaintance: "Isn't he an awful jerk?" "You don't know what an awful jerk he is," Johnson replied, "until you get to know his better side...
...remark; "It's almost impossible to dislike Tom Dewey until you know him well." (TIME...