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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Toward the end, Vaughan even took the offensive in a jocular sort of way. He was asked if he couldn't have kept his old pal John Maragon out of the White House just by telling the guards not to let him in. "I could do that, yes," he said, "but Maragon is a lovable sort of a chap. You cannot get mad at him. It is awful hard to do, at least." Maragon, he went on, would have to be "pretty well washed up, fumigated," but he thought that "most of Maragon's sins have not been...
...asked Johnson to provide air transport for himself and eleven other Congressmen. As chairman of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on the armed services, he might have expected a soft answer, but instead he drew a crisp refusal: ". . . The services do not have aircraft to spare for trips of this sort," wrote Johnson. "The cost . . . for such a special flight easily can exceed $25,000." At those prices, Johnson suggested, it would be cheaper to use commercial airlines...
Best Customer. Despite such wealth, Canada today is a sort of well-heeled pauper. Reason: the world's dollar crisis. As the U.S.'s best customer, the Dominion needs a whopping supply of U.S. dollars to keep her economy going. Traditionally, she earned some of the dollars by selling in the U.S. and the balance by selling such surpluses as grain and timber to Britain and the rest of the world. Because of the dollar shortage, Britain and many another customer have slashed their purchases in Canada, and have thus ripped apart the historic pattern of Canadian trade. This week...
Last year, she got a sort of final accolade when five Juilliard students came around for lessons. She had to send three back...
...good a show as ever. When he waved the men of his Royal Philharmonic to their feet on the fourth curtain call, they sat still; he howled at them in mock fury, then turned to the delighted audience: "You have observed, ladies and gentlemen, that this orchestra has every sort of virtue but one-obedience...