Word: ross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Evelyn stayed at the Blue Angel for her customary three years, began building a radio name with appearances on the Lanny Ross Show, the Chesterfield Supper Club, the Bourjois Powder Box Theater, et al. Last week, the buildup paying off big, she mused: "I sometimes wonder why I studied singing. I became such a huge success when I stopped using my voice...
...term, Harry Truman now never makes a decision the first time an important problem is brought to him. The question first goes for study to his four-man staff: Adviser Clark Clifford, Assistant John Steelman (still a White House big shot despite his labor bobbles), Secretaries Charlie Ross (press) and Matt Connelly (agenda). Clifford decides what Cabinet officers or other Administration officials should be called in for consultation, sets up a special subcommittee to chew on the problem. Major policy questions, or tough ones the subcommittee cannot decide, Harry Truman brings to his regular Friday Cabinet meeting...
More than anything else, he is no longer the receiver for Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. November 5, 1946 settled that. Said Presidential Secretary Ross: "The real Truman Administration began the day after elections...
Rolled & Wrapped. When the postwar maritime strikes erupted last year, however, the union was horrified to discover a more basic change in ex-picket Charley Ross-as True Knowledge, he was a conscientious objector to strikes. He not only refused to picket, but did not turn up for alternative jobs-working in soup kitchens, handing out pamphlets or working on a sick committee. After the strike was over he was kicked out of the union by the picketing committee...
...confused with flaxen-haired, four-year-old Charley Ross, who disappeared in 1874, victim of a widely heralded Philadelphia kidnaping, or with President Truman's press secretary...