Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alben Barkley saw Harry Truman off at the station. "Mow 'em down, Harry," Alben advised. "I'm going to fight hard. I'm going to give them hell," promised the President. "You ought not to say 'hell,' " daughter Margaret admonished her father. Senator Barkley suggested: "It is going to be a victorious trip." Said Harry Truman briskly: "Yes, sir. It is going...
...Hunt saw Beck finally locking horns with the C.I.O.'s Walter Reuther "for control of American labor." If Beck won the fight, Hunt predicted, the U.S. might be in for something: "Beck abhors regimentation by government. He favors it by Beck. Beck's philosophy of labor relations envisages one big man in labor sitting down with one big man in industry to write the ticket...
...Patton Mouth. Kay survived the torpedoing of the troopship Strathallen to arrive in North Africa a few weeks after the Allied landing. She saw the bitter days of Kasserine Pass. She gave Ike concern because of the "grins, whistles, wolf-calls" which followed her "in this exclusively male territory...
There were other visitors to headquarters. Writes Kay: "The nomadic politicians were real burdens. They made a point of collaring every G.I. in sight, bellowing, 'Where you from, Son? I'll be sure to tell your Ma I saw you when I get back to the United States of America...
Woman's Cruelest Weapon. During the war, Kay got to Washington. Some of the things she saw there (orange juice and fresh vegetables) she liked. But other things she did not like. Some Army wives she met "left a bad taste in my memory." She was "hurt, then angered at the slander of WACs overseas . . . How, I wondered, how could these Washington gossips . . . lump all overseas service women into one dirty group and then jab it with woman's crudest weapon against woman: moral slander? I was even more upset at learning my own reputation was lost...