Word: swapping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...idea of this monumental swap had been germinating in congressional brains ever since 1935 when New York's ubiquitous Congressman Sol Bloom, deep in plans for his 1937 Constitution sesquicentennial celebration, discovered that Washington's Government buildings contained not a single painting commemorating the Constitution's signing.* Dismayed, Congressman Bloom got his friend, famed Painter and magazine-cover Artist Howard Chandler Christy, a $30,000 commission to paint the subject...
...Approve his bases-for-destroyers swap...
...transatlantic telephone. He had one good talking point on his side. Rumanians were once international capitalists too, had $50,000,000 of investments and other balances in the U. S., frozen (since Oct. 10) by Roosevelt decree. Hinting that the U. S. State Department might consent to a legitimate swap, Colonel Behn got Governor Constantinescu to talk it over with Premier General Antonescu...
From Washington came hints of a partial solution. The U. S. Maritime Commission was mulling a swap of trade routes: let U. S. merchantmen carry British traffic in the Pacific, so that British ships could be transferred to the Atlantic...
...Mary's College, 30 years ago, Joe Engel pitched a perfect (no-man-to-reach-first) baseball game. Grabbed by the Washington Senators, his pitching went sour. Manager Clark Griffith shooed Engel off to the minor-league Minneapolis Millers, told him to swap himself for someone who could play ball. Engel looked the Millers over, sent back Ed Gharrity, a big rawboned catcher. Gharrity turned out to be so good that Engel was hired to scout for Washington...