Word: chapman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Please-no more," pleaded Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman, who found his mail loaded with paperweights after the newspapers ran a story last month saying that he collected the things as a hobby. Among the whatnots he was sent by well-wishers: a weighted mahogany gavel, a glass basin filled with coins, a porcelain pig, a bronze nude in a bronze bathtub...
...served him longer (44 months) than any other member of the Cabinet, Harry Truman picked as Krug's successor a man who fitted an increasingly familiar pattern of presidential appointments. Like Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan (a fellow Coloradan) and Postmaster General Jesse Donaldson, 53-year-old Oscar Littleton Chapman was a longtime career man in his department...
...devoted New Dealer from 1933 on under Franklin Roosevelt, Chapman had also proved his undying loyalty to the Fair Deal by covering nearly 26,000 miles in 1948 as advance man for the Truman campaign train. A teetotaler, Chapman at a White House gathering was once asked by Franklin Roosevelt, "Oscar, mix us a drink," and had to confess he did not know how. The President pretended to be vexed: "I can't have anyone in my little Cabinet who doesn't know how to mix a Martini." Earnest, literal-minded Oscar Chapman had to be assured later...
When it comes to the left halfback position, Dartmouth had cause to complain, for Bob Tyler, Eddie Williams, and Chipper Chapman are all injured, the first two seriously. This leaves no one, but no one, to fill in, and consequently diminishes the left side running attack by an encouraging...
...Sarno reason to Tyler-ate speeding. We Bailey missed that Chapman. A Mueller horse should have Carey-d mo," quaked his assistant, Monahan-ds tremble, Murphy-t ache, Marriott pounds, and McCraney-um throbs--a Fitkin occur. It-Sar-della-brate plot--Bissell Kill...