Word: smooshing
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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...Private Smoosh. Every now & then, says the ex-chairman, there were around the RFC "meddlers wanting to muscle in for a little private smoosh." More often than not, the approach was made through the White House. One day in 1941, after a visit from Alfred E. Smith, President Roosevelt sent a memo to Jones. He thought the RFC ought to buy the Empire State Building of which Smith was president. "We all know that the [building] is a losing proposition," wrote the President, "but. . . it is ideally located for a central Federal Office Building." After an investigation, Jones reported that...