Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tailor-Made. While he looked for good men for the jobs at home, Harry Truman succeeded last week in filling two tough diplomatic posts abroad with men practically tailor-made to his specifications. To succeed Lieut. General Walter Bedell Smith as ambassador to Moscow, the President wanted someone who would not run wild with ideas of his own, could be depended on to execute instructions to the letter, and to maintain the tough U.S. military front that seems best understood in Moscow. The man he picked is poker-faced, tough Vice Admiral Alan Goodrich Kirk...
...Secretary John L. Sullivan ($15,000) and his Under Secretary W. John Kenney ($10,000) were thinking of leaving, too. There were two $15,000 openings on the Atomic Energy Commission (former Iowa editor W. W. Waymack had left, Physicist Robert Bacher had submitted his resignation). Admiral W. W. Smith's $12,000 chairmanship of the Maritime Commission was also open...
...took drastic steps to enforce the law. The ancient Cawood clan, which dominated the county, was cool to his kind of law enforcement. Sheriff Jim Cawood couldn't seem to find many bootleggers, and most of those got off. County Attorney Bert Howard and Commonwealth Attorney Daniel Boone Smith were Cawood adherents. So was Circuit Judge Jim Forester: Judge Willie Bob's convictions were regularly reversed in Jim Forester's court...
White-haired, stiff-necked Captain Donald F. Smith was amazed. The contest, he declared, had "degenerated into a farce." The committee meekly called it off. Explained a disgruntled committeeman: "The good captain didn't want to be seen walking down the aisle with a sweep woman on his arm." Mrs. Clauson sadly announced that she would not attend the ball at all. Promptly, some 800 other workers turned in their tickets. Said one: "If this contest is for the lieutenants' girl friends, then let the lieutenants go to the ball...
...night of the ball, some 4,000 people came to Rhodes-on-the-Pawtuxet. Permanent-waved and smartly turned out, Mrs. Clauson was trembling when she took her place with the other hostesses to greet guests. Captain Smith arrived, and everybody watched to see what he would do. He breezed right by Mrs. Clauson without a word. Soon, she retired to the cloakroom, and talked with the hatcheck girls. After a while, she helped them check hats & coats...