Word: buchanan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three months ago, earnest, angular Editor Ben McKelway of the Washington Star called one of his reporters on the carpet. To 29-year-old Tom G. Buchanan Jr., who covered the medical beat, the boss put one question: Are you a Communist? Reporter Buchanan, an ex-Army captain, replied that he was (an admission that most good Communists regard as naive). McKelway carefully assured Buchanan that his work had been satisfactory. Then he fired...
...fear "dead air," cherish her gift of gab."What's a Capulet?" Felton asked her recently. "Someone with a small size cap," was Sadie's assured reply. Felton: "What great events occurred between 1860 and 1870?" Sadie: "Terrible things. They had a centennial. Things was terrible. McKinley, Buchanan and Lincoln all was killed. It was a terrible centennial...
Marauding Bears. Liberty Hyde Bailey, born during the Buchanan administration, was raised in the Michigan wilderness, on a farm his father hacked out of the forest. His family fought off marauding bears, learned to weave their own cloth, make their own soap and candles, tan their own leather, grow or hunt their own food. The elder Bailey was a Puritan, who liked being 52 miles from a postoffice (mail once a week, he thought, was quite enough), and had to approve every book young Lib read, except Pilgrim's Progress and the Bible. Once Lib brought home The Origin...
...added to the White House until 1824, the colonnaded north portico five years later. Other Presidents have made other alterations with & without outcry. Jefferson added wing terraces and long rows of one-story "offices," which also served as "meat house, wine cellar, coal and wood sheds and privies." Buchanan tacked on a glass conservatory, Coolidge raised the roof (unnoticeably from the outside) to find room for eight bedrooms...
...bill calls for all ex-presidents to become senators-for-life on the theory that the talent of elder statesmen should not lie fallow after they step down from the White House. The idea isn't new. In the days of President Buchanan the six ex-presidents still alive were known to have favored the scheme...