Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Smith made no promises; she just pointed to her record. She had voted with the G.O.P. majority and had stuck to the progressive wing. She had learned her district like the back of her hand. She faithfully answered every letter herself. Every week, she sent local newspapers a folksy column called "Washington and You." Said a constituent: "That Margaret is straight as a yard of pump water...
Though many foreign observers had been rooting for Arthur Vandenberg because they knew where he stood, they conceded that Tom Dewey would not be too bad. Moscow, of course, stuck with damaging loyalty to Henry Wallace and denounced Dewey as a "prophet of imperialism." Le Parisien announced the governor's victory thus: "Tom Dewey is only one meter 56 centimeters tall, but his voice is the most radiophonic...
Died. Major General William Carey Lee (ret.), 53, hard-bitten founding father of the U.S. Army's Airborne Command; of a heart ailment; in Dunn, N.C. A non-West Pointer who stuck to the Army after World War I, Paratrooper Lee spent much of the '30s as a military observer in Europe, organized the Army's first experimental paratroop units in 1940, commanded the 101st Airborne Division till a heart ailment retired him to a desk job just before...
...city editor in the business, has no need for one of the swank new suites. They are reserved for Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger, General Manager Julius Ochs Adler, Editor Charles Merz, Sunday Editor Lester Markel, Columnist Anne O'Hare McCormick and Managing Editor James, in case they are stuck at the paper all night. Joseph takes his leave of his morning-paper staff by 6 p.m. He and his assistants assign the Times's 150 reporters to stories, but the editing is done by copyreaders, which helps explain why the Times sometimes reads as if nobody edited...
...Dewey's job, in the week before the convention, was to make sure the delegates already pledged to him stuck tight to the bargain-and then to beat the bushes for more delegates...