Word: virtual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Treasury. To succeed him in the Treasury, the President nominated the man who had twice before come in behind Vinson as he moved upward-Reconversion Boss John Wesley Snyder, a virtual unknown until Harry Truman moved to the White House. John Snyder and Harry Truman were buddies in World War I. They are the closest of cronies now. Perhaps that fact alone was enough for the President to pick him for the second "highest Cabinet post (and second in succession to the presidency...
...studios of the Crimson Network he made the "discover;" he asked an erstwhile bit player on the radio workshop, Miss Kay Casale, Radcliffe '47, to read for the open part. Despite her virtual lack of any stage experience, she was quickly given the role...
That way has often been hard and rocky, beset by depressions and a virtual government dictatorship. But last week Newfoundlanders once again were promised a chance to vote on their future...
Gene Kelly assumed virtual monarchy of the Hollywood dance with his animated cartoon sequence in "Anchors Aweigh." "Yolanda and the Thief" marks the formal abdication of Mr. Astaire...
...Sundays by "the younger women, dressed more to please the younger men than God"; 2) the intellectual-the brand practiced by a minority aware of "the full significance of Catholicism as an 'ideology.' " In almost every Latin American land but Mexico, he concluded, the masses have "committed [virtual] apostasy...