Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although Robert Lincoln lent the vast pile of papers to Nicolay and Hay, who had them for 27 years, he refused to make the collection public. According to legend, he was afraid that Indiana's late Senator Albert Beveridge would use some item to write something unfavorable about the Lincoln family...
Said Henri-Albert Joinville, 46, a road repair man: "The Marshall plan was quite simple when it started and now the politicians are trying to make it complicated. It is still simple for me. We are in trouble. If we don't get help, there may be anarchy in France. The Americans have offered to help all those countries which are willing to help each other. We have accepted. Now let's get ahead. Pour l'amour de Dieu, pas de pagaille! [For God's sake, let's not mess around...
...from the China civil war had led to a deadlock: neither the Government nor the Communists had enough strength for a knockout punch. As the opposing forces clinched wearily last week, China, bled white by the long struggle, took a new breath. The U.S.'s three-star General Albert C. Wedemeyer was on the way to see what could be done to retrieve the losses that followed from five-star General Marshall's indecisive decision...
Weaker Sex. In Nottingham, England, Thomas Albert Morley came home one night, manfully announced: "I'm boss from now on." Thereupon his wife 1) pushed him over a chair, 2) kicked him, 3) cut his arm with a knife, 4) cut him under the eye with a well-aimed teapot, 5) threatened to kill...
...rather few middle class libertarians ask for legal treatment of Smith, they are, inevitably called fascists and Germany is darkly referred to. But I saw Life's photographs showing Communists breaking up a meeting in Hungary, and recall Trotsky's death in Mexico. And here at home I remember Albert Malz's recent attempt to introduce the question of esthetics into party art, and his public and humble apology to the party for having had a thought of his own. When such people show a concern about "free speech" they must be talking "quietistic" nonsense. I would like...