Word: smith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Conformist. In Northampton, Mass., a Smith freshman scrawled as her denominational preference: "I like to be called Betty...
...Confidence. The Governor and Mrs. Dewey visited St. Patrick's Cathedral, where Al Smith's casket lay, then boarded the ten-car train for Charleston, W.Va. The Governor was in a confident mood. This mood the Governor carried into his speech that night. Clearly he felt that he had taken the Champ's hardest blows, and that his own steady body-punching was wearing his opponent down. The speech kept up that hammering of the Administration...
...laid in state in the center aisle of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in Manhattan, they lined up, three-abreast and three blocks long, hour after hour, to pass by him and pay their last respects-as they had done only three days before, five blocks south, at Al Smith's bier...
...York Herald Tribune Correspondent John Chabot Smith made the serious charge that on two successive days official announcements of Fifth Army progress failed to jibe with the operational maps. Headquarters lamely explained that patrols had reached forward points, then came back. Even the Army newspaper Stars and Stripes dared to raise the question with the headline: "Is or Isn't the Gothic Line Cracked?" Wrote Correspond ent Sergeant Jack Foisie...
...South Carolina's lame duck Senator Cotton Ed Smith galumphed into Washington, vowed he could wreck Term IV. He organized a National Agricultural Committee, set out to "deliver the nation's farm vote" to Tom Dewey in the next five weeks. Roared metaphor-mixing Cotton Ed: "We have taken a nose dive into hell! I have great hopes that a miracle will gird up its loins and try another deal." Next day, the committee folded...