Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outgoing national chairman, Rhode Island's easygoing J. Howard McGrath, had never wanted to be beastly to the Dixiecrats. He thought that judicious use of patronage and cajolery would corral some Dixiecrat votes in Congress for Harry Truman's Fair Deal. It hadn't done any such thing...
...Scintilla. When he had stated his repentance for every item of the statement, Carl Vinson thought it was about time for the committee to take a formal stand on the evidence to date. By unanimous agreement (including the vote of Pennsylvania's discomfited James Van Zandt, who had reported the anonymous charges on the House floor), the committee agreed that there was not "one iota, not one scintilla, of evidence . . . that would support charges or insinuations [of] collusion, fraud, corruption, influence or favoritism...
...nation was treated last week to the unique sight of an Administration official really swinging an economy ax. Secretary Louis Johnson announced a cutback in Defense Department jobs which he thought would ultimately save the country $500 million a year...
...minute spiel from husky, suave Henry Wilcoxon. The actor, who plays a military governor in the film and goes on drawing his $1,000 weekly salary while spreading the good word, promised them that the picture would offer not merely entertainment, but education, inspiration, food for thought-in short, just about everything but salvation. ("...A story of love and lust, brutality and kindness, despair and hope, strength and weakness...
...Second Thought...In Pueblo, Colo., when Banker Raymond C. C. Thatcher complained that he had been overcharged $375 in inheritance taxes, officials reviewed the case, discovered that it had been wrongly classified, upped Thatcher's taxes another...