Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fire him six months later for objecting to Roosevelt's dollar devaluation policy. To friends, Roosevelt dusted Acheson off as a "lightweight." The lightweight promptly built up a small fortune as a corporation lawyer in Washington. He bought a fine home in swank Georgetown for his pretty artist wife and a 120-acre farm in Maryland. He picked up fat fees from utility companies fighting the New Deal. Though he was not a Government official when war in Europe came along, he helped put over the 50-destroyer deal with Britain. In 1941, all was forgiven and Roosevelt made...
Hamilton insisted that he was white and that he had been born in California rather than Russellville (where records showed that a Clark Council Hamilton Jr., colored, had been born in 1928). His wife believed him, refused to listen to her mother's demands that she get a divorce. But her mother had a final weapon-she swore to a complaint against Hamilton...
...wife got him a lawyer, swore that she still wanted him-black or white. But if he were proved to be a Negro (Virginia's definition: "every person in whom there is ascertainable any Negro blood"), he would be guilty of miscegenation-a crime punishable by as much as five years in the penitentiary...
...huddled over it with his wife and five-year-old daughter. For hours, as the storm howled, they coughed with smoke and fed their flame. But gradually the numbing cold sapped their strength. As they sat snuggled together with their arms around each other, the fire went out. The wind blew fine snow through every crack in the car, heaped it tightly around them. Thus blanketed, they died...
...liar-adventurer and does it very well. He is wholly creditable as the fatal charmer, an exceedingly difficult job to do without making the character a slippery heel. He injects a good deal of humor into his acting, notably through gestures. Despite this, however, the characters of the wife and daughter are more intriguing, if less whole. Arlene Francis plays the wife with a restraint that suggests that there is more to her than the script will allow. Her part is brief and disturbing; the audience is hardly allowed to make more than a "cocktail-party analysis" of her personality...