Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Well, said Harry Truman, as 132 bloodthirsty newsmen watched eagerly, this was a surprise! Priest had no business saying that, Truman retorted-especially since he is the House Democratic whip. Make it plain to him, the President told the reporter, that the two secretaries would not resign as long as he was President...
...very thing that U.S. Reds banked on was that the First Amendment would give them freedom to make "all preparatory steps and in the end the choice of initiative, dependent upon that moment when they believe us, who must await the blow, to be worst prepared to receive it" -an analysis which paralleled the analysis made by Judge Medina...
...penthouse political conference in Kansas City's Muehlebach Hotel last December, Harry Truman decided, and shortly proclaimed for all to hear, that Emery Allison would make a wonderful U.S. Senator for the state of Missouri...
...encouragingly on the back, the Democratic Party bucked and groaned like a plow that had hit a patch of Ozark hardscrabble. Most Democrats thought that Thomas C. Hennings Jr., a hearty St. Louis attorney who had earned a substantial reputation as a U.S. Congressman in the '30s, would make a better candidate and many of them were committed...
...should not be allowed to intrude. For "Mr. Pleased-to-meet-you," the Rotarian type, "be a good saleswoman and drag out the wares you know will attract him-social position, education, prominent friends." Tell the flashy spender, "You're awfully good to people." For the stingy man, "make a virtue of his cautiousness by talking disparagingly of the man who throws his money around." Intellectuals should not intimidate her. "They all think more or less alike," says Miss Carlyle. "Some reading from the books of his authorities will give you the confidence to join the discussion...