Word: america
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Latin America, generally, was more friendly to the U.S. than it used to be, but it was economically shaky, and Communist influence had not been eradicated...
...Guantanamo, the President rode around the base in an open car, stopped to greet some 200 children who welcomed him by singing America. One, a freckle-faced twelve-year-old boy, stepped forward to present a scrapbook about the base's school. After a brave start, the boy flubbed his long-rehearsed speech. Harry Truman, who knows how it feels to stumble over lines, leaned down and whispered: "Never mind, son." The boy beamed...
There was a time when the C.I.O.'s highhanded, Red-tinted National Maritime Union could & would tie up a ship at the drop of a seaman's swab. Last week, when the United States Lines' S.S. America docked in New York with a sizzling labor dispute aboard, company officials prepared for the worst. The union's delegate, a wiry, intense ship's electrician named Walter Avellar, had served an ultimatum: either the company fired Chief Crew Steward W. S. McDonald and reinstated two seamen, or the ship would not sail. Roared grim-jawed, grim-tempered...
...Vera Conard, president of the Women's Club of America, called on U.S. women to crusade for a woman President of the U.S. Among her nominations: the Duchess of Windsor, Clare Boothe Luce, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Replied Mrs. John L. Whitehurst, former president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs: "Women voters would not support a woman. . . . Women don't like to see other women get ahead...
Bernard De Voto, 51, Harper's columnist and literary historian (Mark Twain's America, Minority Report), won appointment to the Department of the Interior's Advisory Board on National Parks, Historic Sites, Buildings and Monuments...