Word: vaughans
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...specification for our next President can simply be stated as the best suited to match against Stalin. If this contest were poker, Truman might be a good possibility for us, especially if he had General Vaughan to deal from the bottom of the deck for him. If the contest were one of rolling the pork barrel, Senator Taft would be a good candidate to stake our lives on. If, on the other hand, we were to match Stalin in coon hunting, our man from Tennessee would be an excellent choice...
...visiting friend last week, the President gave a more down-to-earth reason for his retirement, quoting a favorite expression of his military jester, Major General Harry Vaughan: "If you don't like the heat, get out of the kitchen. Well, that's what I'm doing...
Newbold Morris and the chiefs of the Administration. But it was a spectacle, part political farce and part national humiliation, that Washington would remember. Morris launched his inquiry in his own inimitable style. He made snide remarks in public against such pets of Harry Truman as Major General Harry Vaughan. He talked loftily of starting his house-cleaning in the Department of Justice, of which he was technically a member. At the congressional hearings, he wrathfully resented personal questions seeking to clarify the part he had played and the cut he had taken in some gaudily profitable surplus tanker deals...
...poker game, in fact, took up the best part of the presidential vacation. Truman, Harry Vaughan, Press Secretary Joe Short, Air Force Aide General Robert Landry, Speechwriter Charles Murphy and the other regulars dealt the cards about 4 o'clock every afternoon. They played until 7, took time out for dinner, picked up again at 8:30 and kept going until 11 o'clock. Their game: "poverty" or "Depression" poker. Each week each player puts up $100. If he loses his hundred he continues to play on a dole, thus has a chance to win back his money...
John Davison, 1G, wrote his Violin Sonata in an appealing, pastoral style, strongly reminiscent of Vaughan Williams. The first three movements became slightly monotonous because of the similarity of their musical ideas, though this impression may be due to the uniformity of the tempi with which they were performed. In the fourth movement, Mr. Davison departs from his hitherto placid style and attempts, I think successfully, a more elaborate plan. Especially noteworthy are the many long, beautifully constructed melodies which appear in the course of this composition...