Word: backroom
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...partner in the firm named Adlai Stevenson. After wartime service on Navy subchasers, Day went briefly back to his Chicago practice, quit in 1949 to help out Old Friend Stevenson, newly elected as Governor of Illinois, as an administrative assistant in Adlai's "kitchen cabinet." Day entertained the backroom boys with homemade limericks on Springfield politics, eventually became state insurance commissioner. The job was a stepping-stone to a second career: after Stevenson's presidential defeat in 1952, Day joined the Prudential Insurance Co., rose to one of the top spots (behind President Carrol Shanks), as chief...
Allen's Touch. In 1944 Allen attended the Democratic Convention and was one of a handful of backroom movers and shakers who persuaded Roosevelt to dump Henry Wallace as Vice President and put Missouri's Senator Harry Truman on the ticket. During the campaign, Allen worked closely with Truman, added many a deft touch to his campaign speeches, and by inauguration day, he was a member of the innermost Truman Circle. When Truman became President, he rewarded Allen with a job as director of the Reconstruction Finance Corp., but after a year Allen quit. He realized that...
Next day in the Senate, Merzagora coldly pointed out that this was the third Italian government in a row that had been destroyed without any consultation with Parliament. If Italy's party bosses continued to make and unmake governments in cozy backroom deals, said Merzagora, "we might as well turn Parliament into a restricted executive committee to save time and money...
Indiana primary (May 3, 34 delegate votes, bound on the first ballot only), then set out on a highly successful round of handshaking, speechmaking and backroom planning...