Word: scotches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tenth floor, the Dewey party, isolated from press and public, listened tensely. The first tidings seemed "encouraging," but by 11:30 p.m. the news looked bad. Dewey was on the verge of conceding. Then Dewey's staff of statisticians found there was a mathematical chance; bellhops brought in Scotch highballs, sandwiches, coffee...
...Trumans were plain people of Scotch, Irish and Dutch stock. (Harry said: "We're a little of everything. If you shook the family tree anything might fall...
...town ringing citizens' doorbells, tells them "I'm Henry Wallace," and then sits down for a little parlor discussion. (This unheralded approach made some housewives nervous ; they never knew but what the next buzz on the doorbell might be the Vice President. What to serve him? Not Scotch, of course. Tomato juice?) In Manhattan's Harlem 4,000 Negroes attended a big political rally at which the VP had been advertised as the main speaker, only to find that his speech was to be played off a record. At a rally in Wall Street a lunch-hour...
...Montreal's staid, 600-room Windsor Hotel, the delegates, 350-odd strong, came in from all parts of the world. The Russian brought their own caviar. Drinking delegates paid $14.50 a bottle for Scotch that was selling in Quebec stores for $7.25. Some 60 delegates, including the U.S. group, were sideswiped by the hurricane (see U.S. AT WAR) which marooned their train. They were 16 hours late. Finally the representatives of 44 nations put their feet under a tremendous U-shaped table and opened the second session of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration...
Something Turns Up. Crerar is pure Scotch-Canadian. Born 56 years ago to a middleclass, nonmilitary family in Hamilton, he learned about war at the Royal Military College in Kingston. Deciding that he could not live on a junior officer's pay and unwilling to cadge from his father, he took a job as an electrical engineer, a commission in the militia, and waited for something to turn...