Word: wings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...workbaskets. He reads with page-at-a-glance rapidity. But part of his speed in getting through his paper work results from the fact that he reads military and State Department reports carefully, but most domestic messages get a quick send-off to James F. Byrnes in the opposite wing of the White House. Jimmy Byrnes has now actually become what so many of his predecessors were wrongly touted to be: a genuine Assistant President. Other intimates hesitate to say that the little ex-Senator and ex-Justice, who has grown steadily in Mr. Roosevelt's esteem and confidence...
...Presidents. One day early in 1942 nervous Henry Morgenthau decided that the White House should have a bomb shelter. The President agreed, but added a revealing addendum. New offices were also needed. While the construction work was going on, he proposed, why not look ahead and prepare the East Wing of the White House to be a museum? He made sketches, blueprints were drawn, carpenters carried them out. Now, in the wing where Byrnes, Hopkins, Leahy and Lubin have their offices, all is ready for carpenters to come again after the war, knock down old partitions, put up new ones...
...That gallant old eagle, Mr. Hull . . . flew far on a strong wing. . . . No airy visions, no party doctrines or party prejudices, no political appetites or vested interests must stand in the way of providing before the end of the war for food, work and homes. . . . Unless the hand of Providence is stretched forth by some crowning mercy, 1944 will see the greatest sacrifice of life. . . . British and American manhood, striving in generous emulation, true brothers in arms, will attack and grapple with the deadly foe. ... I say that our supreme duty-all of us, British and American alike...
...Commager might admit that the bogey remains: representatives of the people might threaten the integrity of the Bill of Rights. But the Professor does not trust the Supreme Court to protect freedom. The record of history, he says, "reveals no instance (with the possible exception of the dubious Wong Wing case) where the Court has intervened on behalf of the underprivileged-the Negro, the alien, women, children, workers, tenant-farmers.* It reveals, on the contrary, that the Court has effectively intervened again and again to defeat congressional efforts to free slaves, guarantee civil rights to Negroes, to protect workingmen, outlaw...
...Wong Wing v. United States held invalid a statute granting authority to a U.S. Commissioner rather than to a jury to try Chinese alleged to be unlawfully in the country...