Word: rewardingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reward for his political support, on the recommendation of Secretary of the Treasury, William H. Woodin, he was made Under Secretary of the Treasury. It was one of the shortest jobs he ever held. His legal mind did not approve of President Roosevelt devaluing the dollar, and he spoke out against it. Roosevelt fired him. In a ceremony of Treasury officials at the White House, at which Acheson himself was a stiff-faced participant, Roosevelt handed the Under Secretary's job over to Henry Morgenthau Jr., remarking pointedly that he hoped Morgenthau's loyalty would stand up under...
Kremlin's Reward. No one was sure what Anna Louise Strong had done to get this stunning blow. It might be that the party line, which she had followed faithfully for so long, had left her behind somewhere in one of its sudden sharp turns. She might have swallowed her own propaganda, in which she had frequently explained that various Communist parties were simply national patriotic movements; as of the winter of 1948, that was known in Moscow as the "nationalist heresy." Whatever her offense,the Kremlin had in its own way rewarded Anna Louise Strong for a lifetime...
Last week Bill Boyle came to his reward. Democratic Chairman J. Howard McGrath, who is loyal but no mover and shaker, was called to the White House, gently given the word. Then McGrath announced that Boyle would be executive vice chairman, run headquarters, share in policymaking. There was much more to it than that: Bill Boyle would parcel out, or pass on, the jobs in the lush fields above civil service and below Cabinet rank (among them: judgeships, U.S. district attorneys, key postmasterships). Eventually he would probably take title officially from McGrath. His first goal: to buck...
...Candles. Porter's taste for a life of truffled trifles was whetted even before he went to college. As a reward from his grandfather for having been class valedictorian at prep school, he got a tour of France, Switzerland and Germany. He had also developed a talent for enchanting everyone within earshot of his piano (his mother, Kate Porter, now 87, made him practice every day). At Yale he moved about socially and expensively, wrote undergraduate shows, skipped regularly into Manhattan to see the Broadway output, and often got back to the campus on a milk train...
...Weinstock right in saving the deserter? Were the former prisoners right in killing him? Author Comfort implies that Weinstock was right, on the ground that an act of human kindness is its own justification and reward. In the end, the harried Weinstock, fearful of being jailed for the deserter's killing, flees the city. Where to? For him it does not matter; "one place [is] as good as another...