Word: veep
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Veep came out looking old and tired and sat down to the most strained press conference in his political history. Two stenographers kept careful record as he explained that Flo Bratten was "an accommodating, good-natured, bighearted woman." Would she keep her job? Said Barkley, woodenly: "I am not going to make a hasty judgment ... I am reserving judgment...
...Argentine Who's Who, in a biography dictated by Evita herself, states that she is 29-a year less than the age set by the constitution for candidates for the nation's two top offices. Chirped the New York Daily News: "Eva would rather be 29 than Veep...
...President Alben W. Barkley was also arriving, hotel protocol experts went into a huddle, reached a solution that seemed to satisfy everyone. MacArthur's red five-star flag, usually flown at the front entrance, was moved around to another door in honor of all three generals. The white Veep flag (13 stars and the American eagle) was hoisted over the main door. But later the experts learned that their solution was not quite right after all. As Secretary of Defense, General Marshall rated his own blue standard (four stars and an eagle...
...North Georgia Methodist Conference in Atlanta, Vice President Alben W. Berkley explained how he happened to become a Methodist himself. "My ancestors were Presbyterians for six generations," said the Veep, "but I was at a Methodist college-old Emory at Oxford, Ga. I decided to become a Methodist when I was 17. I decided I could be just as good a man in the Methodist Church as in the Presbyterian Church, if I wanted...
...Philadelphia, Vice President Alben Berkley asked his Secret Service guard not to tail him too closely. Explained the Veep: "I don't want to feel that I'm in a vacuum and guarded every minute of the day ... I try to take my wife with me wherever I go, and you can bet your life she keeps...