Word: summer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, the labor-conscious President heard a rude noise from his own home town. An A.F.L. painters' union complained that the summer White House in Independence, Mo. was being painted by a non-union painter...
Like most civilian secretaries before him, Matthews was a little slim on nautical background, but hoped to learn. Said Landlubber Matthews: "I do have a rowboat at my summer home...
...year, became several times a millionaire. Left to Frank Hague were his declining years-to spend in his suite at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel, in his $7,000-a-year apartment in one of Jersey City's few good residential sections, in his $125,000 Deal (N.J.) summer home, or in his $100,000 winter home on Biscayne Bay. Doubtless old Frank Hague also had some pleasant memories...
Even with the most successful summer campaign Van Fleet does not think that the guerrillas can be finally defeated this year, but his plans call for cleaning them out of all Greece except the northern frontier areas. Actually, some military observers believe that Van Fleet is too optimistic, that the guerrillas will continue tormenting Greece as long as they are supplied and equipped from abroad. Last week Van Fleet still stood by what he had said when he first came to Greece: "My advice to the rebels is to give up now. Either stay and get killed...
...fetish for punctuality is a Rio legend. "If the President has an appointment outside the palace for 9 o'clock," says an aide, "his hat must be brushed and on a table beside the door by 7." On a trip to Bolivia last summer the presidential plane was scheduled for a 6 a.m. takeoff...