Word: thinking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gwen now has her own hatpin drawn for Mrs. Mesta. Says she: "Why, Perle Mesta came to Washington with a telephone book and a cookbook ... I was in Washington when Mrs. Mesta came and I was here when she left ... I just don't really think she matters...
...immediate talk of the party's wonder boy, Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., who was elected to the House only six weeks ago. But Junior said he'd rather see it go to ex-Governor Herbert H. Lehman, who is 71. Lehman said he'd like to think it over a while...
...life was proof that it is possible to rise from the slums (his father was a janitor for a tenement house on Manhattan's East Side). Said Wagner bitterly: "That is the most God-awful bunk. I came through it, yes. That was luck, luck, luck. Think of the others...
...three days the repatriates were processed through a reorientation center. There were many surprises in U.S.-occupied Japan. "I didn't think Japan had any clothing left," said one man as he wriggled his feet into a pair of heavy new shoes. Gradually, as the repatriates talked to friendly representatives from home prefectures, looked at Japanese newspapers and books, attended reorientation lectures on the new government and the social structure, the crust of fear and suspicion softened; tight, drawn faces began to relax. Smiling repatriates in new grey clothes crowded around local exhibits in the prefectural exhibition building...
...denied that he had ever used any influence. He was "just an errand boy," he said, helping small businessmen to find their way around Washington's federal bureaus. Of course, he knew Harry Vaughan and had entertained him at a few cocktail parties, but he wouldn't think of asking him, or his other friends, to influence Government contracts. Though Harry Vaughan readily admitted their friendship, many of the other "friends" smiling down from Hunt's office walls promptly said that they didn't know him. They pointed out that it was easy to look like...