Word: staying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...raised a finger in the campaign. But the man Truman had appointed as the nation's first Defense Secretary was deep in a complex military budget and other defense matters that must soon go to Congress. Last week, Washington heard that Truman had asked Forrestal to stay and would not let him go unless Forrestal insisted...
...Vinson Affair. But Harry Truman has never lost his great respect for Marshall, nor is he unmindful of the prestige and authority Marshall carries on Main Street as well as in Moscow. Last week, Marshall yearned more than ever for retirement, but the President pleaded with him to stay, fully aware, however, that some time, probably in a matter of months, the old soldier would have to be given his well-earned rest at last...
...long as Marshall stayed, Under Secretary Bob Lovett would stay, too-although the post-election guessers had quickly banished him back to Wall Street. Washington heard last week that the President had called Lovett to the White House and told him that he had great confidence...
Other able men would stay on. ECAdministrator Paul G. Hoffman, who has Cabinet rank, emerged from a White House conference and told reporters: "The President told me he wanted me to stay on the job. I didn't ask him-he told me." Was that agreeable? Said Hoffman: "Whether it's agreeable or not, I'm staying. I have no complaints but I like my California climate better...
...program, football players didn't even get pin money from the school. Worse still, rigid entrance exams kept out boys who were fast on their feet but slow in the head. And when Wild Bill finally got his boys together for practice, some of them couldn't stay long. Norm Keats, 210-lb. first-string tackle and a dramatic student, had to leave practice half an hour early for theater rehearsals...