Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Party. Perle does not like to be considered just a hostess nowadays. She insists she is a kind of "across-the-table political worker." Says she solemnly: "The entertaining I do is my way of serving the President and the party." But Perle has made the Democratic Party her party only since 1942, when she walked out on the Republicans because of their treatment of Willkie ("They rushed me in to see Dewey, but they couldn't budge...
Perle is go-getting and able in her own way. She is a money-raiser extraordinary. At Harry Truman's request, she hustled her checkbook out to Kansas City in 1946, saved the day for his campaign to purge his home-town Congressman, Roger Slaughter. As co-chairman of last year's Jefferson-Jackson Day dinners, she raised $250,000, kept at it doughtily during the campaign. Declared Louis Johnson, chairman of the Democratic Finance Committee: "When our crowd got discouraged, Perle Mesta would raise hell. She called us men of little faith. She was a tonic...
Hurrying through Washington's Union Station, she looked like any Government stenographer, eagerly on her way to a New York City weekend. Hatless and smartly turned out in a sporty belted coat, she carried a small valise. But Judith Coplon was no ordinary working girl. At 27, she had risen to a job which was listed by the civil service as political analyst, foreign agents registration section, Department of Justice...
Where are we getting? "The way I like to put it," Van Wagoner put it, "is we've got this automobile called democracy-see?-a car called democracy. We've put it here for these people to drive, and we've taught them how to drive, see? But their being able to drive doesn't mean there won't be accidents, does...
...Mueller's warning over the separatist dream of a South German state under the auspices of Paris: "Slice off southern Germany," he said, "and you surrender the north to the Soviets in the long run. You can't build a Paris-Munich-Vienna line without opening the way for a Moscow-Berlin-Ruhr line...