Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...home, Don Nelson won the enthusiastic approval of his boss. Franklin Roosevelt announced that henceforth Donald Nelson would be his special representative, with Cabinet rank. He would have the right to sit in on Cabinet meetings, could demand any information from any Government bureau...
...guests at the Term IV inaugural, said Franklin Roosevelt, would be limited to the Cabinet, the Supreme Court Justices, the foreign diplomats and a few other bigwigs. Photographers and newsmen could sit on a couple of old reviewing stands left over from past Capital parades. Most of the cost would be for food. Obviously delighted by his sharp budgeting, the President enthusiastically improvised a luncheon menu that $2,000 would buy: consommé, chicken á la king, sandwiches, coffee...
...Security Council with limited membership is "reasonable," but the Council "must not be an instrument of imperialistic domination by a few powerful nations." And it must not (as the Soviet insists it must) "allow any nation to sit in judgment in its own case." Arbitration of international disputes should be obligatory...
...tireless pair of reportorial legs. Starting grass-green in 1934, Harvardman Sulzberger declared he would not work for the Times until it asked him to. After a turn on the Pittsburgh Press, he joined the Washington staff of the United Press, became a labor specialist, later wrote a book, Sit-down with John L. Lewis. In 1938 he went abroad without a job, landed one with the London Evening Standard, finally got his call from the Times...
...liked to sit up into the small hours with a brilliant circle of friends ? Oliver Goldsmith, David Garrick, Sir Joshua Reynolds, William Hogarth ? while James Boswell feverishly memorized his conversation. Johnson ruled the roost with a rod of iron. In return for his wit and brilliant common sense, his friends endured his incredible rudeness and prejudices...