Word: washingtonians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...under six Presidents and twelve Attorneys General (and got a new boss this week-see The Administration), Hoover is above all else an extraordinarily competent and careful bureaucrat who runs his own show and has learned to perfection the art of survival in Government-even though, as a lifelong Washingtonian, he has never voted...
Harry Cain wanted to attack the appointment of a fellow Washingtonian, Truman Crony Mon C. Wallgren, as chairman of the vital National Security Resources Board. Cain talked for more than six hours, scratching under his arms, hitching at his trousers, sipping milk and raising one foot after the other so that his male secretary could change his shoes. Mrs. Cain, who has filed a suit for divorce, sat in the gallery the whole time, watching her husband admiringly...
...capital, tall, husky Conductor Hans Kindler is one of the U.S.'s great conductors (and, say some Washington ladies, "the most beautiful man"). To his detractors, he is a man "who can't even beat a waltz," a fellow who likes to chop up scores: one Washingtonian calls Kindler's National Symphony Orchestra "the only orchestra in the world to give a ten-minute performance of Petrouchka...
...Last week, with the Republicans in the majority, and with the top hat, the starched shirt and the powdered bosom fashionable again, Washington was the most glittering of world capitals. Its parties were not only lavish, but in many cases prodigiously decorous and restrained. The average Washingtonian invariably hopes that others will think he is discussing some new and ponderous fact of foreign policy; he eternally strives for a concerned and thoughtful expression...
...many a problem, the fine line of just where the President leaves off and Hopkins takes up is a matter privy to them alone, and public knowledge of it must await their memoirs, which Hopkins?being the kind of man he is?will probably never write. Said one eminent Washingtonian who has often worked with Hopkins : "The people who dislike Hopkins are the people who like order...