Word: working
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army supplied only a plain blanket for the presidential lap (instead of the electric blanket furnished by the Navy last year), and the electric foot warmer did not work. But Harry Truman cheerfully hammed a few appropriate poses for photographers, oohed and aahed like any common citizen at the power of Army's football team (see SPORT). "I enjoyed it but it was a little one-sided," commented old artilleryman Truman before he left for home...
Next morning, having read the press notices, the President with wife, daughter, and staff, took off from Washington's national airport for the warm breezes and whispering palms of Key West. There he would have to do some work-on the State of the Union message, on the budget, on finding a replacement for retiring Atomic Energy Commission Chairman David Lilienthal (see The Administration). But Harry Truman planned to spend as much of his three weeks as he could just loafing...
...Senator Kenneth McKellar, who had badgered Lilienthal ever since his days with the Tennessee Valley Authority: "The country is better off.", But Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas declared that David Lilienthal was a "great public servant" who deserved to know that "the great mass of Americans recognize the splendid work he has done." In a letter of unusual warmth and appreciation to "Dear Dave," President Harry Truman agreed. "Reluctantly and with the utmost regret," he accepted the resignation, but with the understanding that Lilienthal would still be on call at any time...
...just before I was going to Paris to work on the treaties [for the German puppet enemy states]," he recalled, "Mrs. Byrnes insisted that I have a checkup-so I went to the Naval Hospital and they took a cardiogram of me. I'd not been sick in 40 years, but they scared the life out of me. They said the 'V which should have been horizontal was inverted," and told Byrnes he would have to slow up. "The next day," said Byrnes, "I sent in my resignation to become effective when I finished the Paris treaties...
...iron heart in the Ruhr to the placid university towns which cherish their professors and their poets, the land ruled by Konrad Adenauer still bears the brutal stamp of total defeat. It also bears the pale, pinched look of poverty. The free-enterprise economic policies, put to work under military government, have led West Germany's 46 million hard-working people from near-starvation a long way toward recovery. But the country's economy is still far from healthy. Most of the shops are full, but intelligent Germans tell Americans: "What we see in the store windows...