Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fishkill Farms, the Hudson Valley home dear to the heart of Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr., lay frozen and snow-specked under grey mists this week. The Mclntosh apple trees, which Henry Morgenthau loves to see at blossom time, stuck bare, stubby branches into a winter wind. The rose bushes which he likes best of all (his favorite is called Better Times) stood like dry sticks in little mounds of protecting earth. Not until April would Fishkill Farms come to life again...
Trouble Everywhere. This week Henry Morgenthau, sincere and determined to do his best, a high-minded public official who likes to call himself a "hired man of the people," stuck stubbornly to his course. But the road ahead was rocky. No previous Treasury Secretary had ever had to cope with such gigantic figures as appeared in the World War II budget. None had ever had to operate from so deep in the doghouse...
Last week it looked as though they might have to take the title to themselves literally. New York Local Board No. 17, reconsidering the cases on General Brown's orders, stuck to its guns. In London the Sunday Pictorial, under a headline BRING 'EM BACK ALIVE, said: "How can we expect Americans to admire British youth when in their midst are such examples [as] these pampered male refugees...
Mount Allegro gives no dogmatic answer to these questions, but itself is an emphatic, resounding affirmative. As for Fascism, that question was answered by Mangione's father, who listened to the boastings of a Mussolunitic, then snorted: "Eight million bayonets? Misca! Where has he got them? Stuck...
Members of the College station scratched their heads. Sex, they felt, can be mighty important in college broadcasting. For proof they pointed to the success of the Corio and "What's Wrong with Harvardmen?" interviews. Perhaps their logic was faulty, but they stuck to their convictions...