Word: townes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before he was offered the new job, able Ralph Bunche told a friend how he felt about Washington. "Frankly," he said, "it's a Jim Crow town and I wouldn't relish exposing my family to it again...
...Army was so impressed with Johnson's ideas on personnel and purchasing that he was offered a majority on the spot. Johnson wasn't interested. He went back to Clarksburg, married Ruth Maxwell, one of the richest, prettiest girls in town, and took up where he had left...
...Secretary Johnson began acting like the No. 1 man in fact. Isolationist Harry Woodring resisted every move toward U.S. intervention abroad, and Assistant Secretary Louis Johnson fought him at every turn. With the connivance of the President, Johnson tabled important matters that passed through his office until Woodring left town; then he rammed them through "by direction of the Acting Secretary of War." He let it be known openly in the War Department that he was "only in the Assistant Secretary's office temporarily...
...right, so I call a girl at Radcliffe. The movie at the UT stinks. You go to town and already it's a big production. All I want to do is throw a little talk around--casual talk. And private. Private. Why the hell can't I? It's my room isn't it? I pay rent on the hole. It would be pretty nice to find a girl who could listen to Brunis records with you. All right--so that's not all. So you smooch a little. They do it in the best repressed families. Or hasn...
Well Out of It. In Dunn, N.C., Defeated Candidate George W. Williams placed an ad in the local newspaper congratulating the winners and thanking those who did not vote for him in the municipal elections: he had just learned "how badly the town is in debt...