Word: west
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Facing newsmen at an open-air press conference in Key West, suntanned Harry Truman seemed as cool and casual as his floppy blue slack suit. For the time being, at least, the President just wanted to forgive and forget...
...lobby gows in the late Sol Bloom's 20th district on Manhattan's West Side put on their derbies last week and paid angry calls on Tammany Chieftain Hugo Rogers. Sol Bloom's district was good Democratic territory, and they had several deserving Tammany candidates for old Sol's job. They had had the place to themselves until a good-looking young lawyer from Long Island announced for the seat. His name: Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
Whenever Dave Beck wants anything, he goes after it. That is how he became a top man in the A.F.L. Teamsters (membership: 1,000,000), and labor overlord of the West. Last week, Beck showed how he was going after up to 2,000,000 new members for the A.F.L.'s biggest union...
...February 4 issue of the West Point "Pointer," published for the inmates of a Southern military college an article about their school, briefing isolated cadets on the life of typical "Joe College...
Attention has been drawn to the conference recently by the denial of visas to invited guests from West European and South American countries. Shapley's group must also compete with a concurrent meeting called by the Americans for Intellectual Freedom, who have received the support of both Dewey and Eliot...