Word: snyder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...around Truman would look just as appropriate," he said, "around a Republican president--except that, were the president Republican, the satellites would probably be smarter. Men like George Allen, John Snyder, Harry Vaughan, and Clark Clifford are, in fact, temperamentally and emotionally Republicans...
...publicize the issues affecting the working classes. What it is the Democrats are campaigning for remains a mystery. Weighed down by incessant squabbles among their own ranks, the Democrats are as yet unable to present a united front. The Southern bloc resists P.A.C. infiltration. And Truman's storm buddies Snyder, Allen, and Clifford find embarrassment in open discussions. The upshot of this shadow-boxing by the two parties is, as Mr. Schlesinger says, a "no-man's land where in the flickering half-light the donkey is indistinguishable from the elephant...
...Treasury-John Snyder for Fred Vinson, who had succeeded F.D.R.'s Henry Morgenthau (the gain that was Vinson was lost...
...accompanied by four close cronies-plump, beaming RFC Director George Allen, Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder, Presidential Adviser Clark Clifford, and Theodore Marks of Kansas City, who had been best man at his wedding 27 years ago. He had only an irreducible minimum of White House aides. Twenty-three reporters and cameramen were isolated well astern in an escort vessel, the destroyer escort Weiss. As the yacht headed downriver under a grey, drizzling sky, Harry Truman stretched, left his guests and strolled off to his stateroom...
...John Snyder, 50, plump, white-faced and shy with strangers, has been with his friend ever since. Now, a little appalled, he finds himself Secretary of the U.S. Treasury and, according to his careful friends, just "an all-round good fellow...