Word: americans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...address, which our bureau in Rome supplied. Others wanted Bruno's measurements so they could send him shoes and clothing. A fortnight ago Correspondent George Jones, of our Rome bureau, visited Lucia Ladanca, and his cabled account, which follows, may serve as one illustration of the effect of American aid to Europeans...
...Glen H. Taylor, who served Henry Wallace as a combination singing cowboy and vice-presidential candidate in last November's election, announced the results of a bit of deductive thought. Interviewed last week on the Meet the Press radio show, he said that he had concluded that the "American people do not want a splinter party." In danger of becoming a splinter himself if he didn't get Democratic Party support for re-election next year, Glen added melodiously that he was no longer "associated" in any way with H. Wallace...
...Hoover could say that the day of the gangster was over. His G-men were the new popular heroes, immortalized ever since on the screen and on the air, and on a thousand box tops, bearing the morning cereal to American boys. The pursuers, not the pursued, had become the object of hero worshipers' affections...
...After two months of almost unbroken heat, the weather got hotter & hotter. A 40 & 8 band from Flint, Mich, marched in an American Legion parade in Detroit in diapers and baby hats. In big-city slums, thousands slept on rooftops and fire escapes. Then over the weekend, a cold air mass moved in at last and made life bearable...
...winter long, while Communist armies moved relentlessly down from the north, U.S. businessmen had gathered at the long, polished bar of the Shanghai American Club for cocktails, a few rolls of liar's dice and endless conversation on the one question paramount in the mind of every Shanghailander: What would happen when the Communists took over? Many had thought that there might be a change for the better: the Communists would at least bring "order." By last week, most U.S. businessmen believed they had their answer. It was not so rosy as most of them had expected...