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...Washington he raised his molasses-smooth, Dixie-thick voice for old-age pensions, WPA, wage and hour laws. He became an accomplished wangler of federal funds. He rode blandly along on Franklin Roosevelt's coattails. He was resourceful in debate, and sometimes brilliant. He could spread demagoguery like warm butter on hoecakes. Florida re-elected him twice, and he began to look like a permanent fixture in the U.S. Senate...
...importing business in Indo-China which soon hit the jack pot, permitting him to amass one of the world's most important private collections of Napoleonana. As a press officer in the Air Ministry in World War II. "Chariot" Brousse acquired the reputation of being the most prodigious wangler in Paris and gained the gratitude of all U. S. newsmen for his many feats of bypassing departmental red tape in their behalf...
...boss, John Carmody, was to rescind a $21,600 grant to the University of Georgia because he had learned the "dormitory" it would build was a new lodge for Sigma Nu, fraternity of Lawrence Wood ("Chip") Robert, secretary of the National Democratic Committee and adroit wangler of Federal grants & contracts. Mr. Ickes had previously raised Cain over commissions claimed by Mr. Robert's construction firm for PWA work in Georgia...
...Lucky wangler of this terrific haul was Ski-enthusiast Walter Heil, Director of the de Young Memorial Museum and the California Palace of the Legion of Honor (an art gallery full of Rodins in Lincoln Park). Rumor in San Francisco was that the Fascist Government authorized the loan to San Francisco rather than New York City because Mussolini was in a pet about New York's Mayor LaGuardia. More likely story: having spent her full fair quota on a pavilion at the New York Fair, Italy had nothing but art to send to San Francisco...
...Dardanelles but virtually to control passage of the straits, whether by sea or air. Russia, having France on her side, hammered demands that Black Sea countries (like Russia) should have unrestricted entrance and egress, while nonBlack Sea countries should have their war boats virtually excluded. A dextrous word wangler, Comrade Litvinoff favored the Conference with his explanation of why the Red Navy, although "wholly not aggressive," must be able to rush out of its Black Sea at any moment. The reason is, according to the Soviet Foreign Minister, that units of the Bolshevik fleet have to make "courtesy visits" constantly...