Word: spent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stops. He has a dozen people who normally work "for the family" following him (their salaries paid until November from his own $20,000 maximum campaign contribution). He is fretful when time is lost, and his relaxation sometimes takes curious channels. One night he flew to the West Coast, spent the next day padding through art museums, flew home next night, arrived at his desk in the morning with the comment: "Gee, that was a good rest...
...York man is marrying into the Clark family"). Wedding present from the groom's parents: a year's trip around the world. Armed with letters of introduction to government officials and Standard Oil executives, Nelson and "Tod" Rockefeller journeyed from Europe to India to the Far East, spent most of their honeymoon discussing world problems with Prime Ministers and potentates...
Harriman abandoned the Republican Party in 1928 to vote for Al Smith, four years later pushed for the presidential election of his fellow squire, Franklin Roosevelt. After a series of Washington jobs in the NRA '305, Harriman spent 1941 to 1943 in London and Moscow as F.D.R.'s special-missions contact and Lend-Lease expediter, was Ambassador to Russia (1943-46), then to the Court of St. James's (1946), and Truman's Secretary of Commerce in the same year. Two years later, he was Marshall Plan ambassador in Europe, then Special Assistant to the President...
...first time since 1932, delegates from eleven Commonwealth lands gathered for a full-dress trade conference. Called to Montreal by Canada's trade-and-aid-minded Tory government, the delegates spent a turbulent first week sniping at one another's trade barriers. Then they got down to business and demonstrated that while free trade is easier said than done, much can be accomplished by the free, friendly flow of ideas...
...back from the North country, the team spent a day at Cambridge with its captain, Bob Hull, and then a day at Oxford with Dudley Wheeler. Weld's comment on the two bastions of higher education was "they're very impressive. I wish we had something like them over here...