Word: ross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reminded newsmen of the Roosevelt era, when the President's whereabouts were cloaked for days in a wartime security blackout. White House Secretary Charlie Ross had assured them that Harry Truman was hard at work in his study...
Then the operator reported that Secretary Ross's phone did not answer...
Reporters remembered that the Alfalfa Club was having its annual summer picnic at Frederick that day. They called the estate of former Ohio Representative Joseph H. Himes. Sure enough, the President, Charlie Ross and Senate Secretary Les Biffle were all on hand, hobnobbing with their 200 fellow club members (Washington officials, businessmen, newsmen...
...competition; three of his four opponents-a 44-year-old Navy Commander named Nelson Levings, 55-year-old ex-Supreme Court Clerk Thomas Quitman Ellis and 66-year-old ex-Congressman Ross A. Collins-were campaigning hard. But Bilbo paid no heed. Instead he howled a warning: "The white people of Mississippi are sitting on a volcano. . . . We are faced with a nationwide campaign to integrate the nigger with the social life of this country...
...tanks and onto the river March 11, the Varsity crew spent a hectic two months trying to fit the right man in the right seat for the quadrangular race against Cornell, Princeton, and M.I.T. on May 4. Stroked by Lou Cox, who replaced be-measled Toby Ross two days before the meet, the Varsity boat finished strongly, with enough of a kick to catch Princeton in the last half mile but not enough power to head a strong Cornell eight; M.I.T. finished last. On the same day, the Jayvees were nosed by Princeton and Bert Haines' 150's and Jayvee...