Word: ross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Middies, with almost an extra month of practice on the Severn, went into the race as the odds-on favorite and there was considerable speculation at the start when Harvard stroke Toby Ross jumped into an early lead on a 34-35 beat...
...boss, Joseph Pulitzer, called him home to edit the editorial page, but Ross missed Washington. He went back in 1939 to stay. One of his constant readers was Truman...
Last week, Charley Ross was both elated and worried by the abrupt offer of his boyhood chum. If he accepted, he would have his finger on an exciting piece of history. Still, the job was a well-known heartbreaker, and it paid only $10,000 a year (Ross gets $35,000 from the P-D). Besides, Publisher Pulitzer was dead against his leaving...
...Harry Truman's mind was made up. He called in Ross, convinced him, then called Pulitzer long-distance and convinced him. Truman agreed to let his new press secretary cover the San Francisco Conference for the P-D before coming to the White House. Together, they agreed to keep the appointment secret until Ross's return...
Moments later, a telephone rang in Independence, Mo. Sprightly Miss Matilda Brown, 75, who had taught high-school English to Harry Truman and Charley Ross, answered it, heard an operator say: "The President of the United States is calling." Said the President: "You'll be glad to know that Charley Ross has agreed to work with me as press secretary...