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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even in tranquil Rhodes, U.N.'s Palestine Mediator Count Folke Bernadotte was offered a mediation job. Two local soccer teams, the Dorics and Diagonos, both claimed the Rhodian championship, and the local one-sheet newspaper suggested that Bernadotte compose the quarrel. (Bernadotte was too busy.) Apart from that, all was serenity in the Dodecanese island which Bernadotte had chosen for his Palestine peace talks. Governor General Nicholas Mavris welcomed correspondents, many straight from embattled Palestine: "Now you have been able to discover an oasis of peace...
Though it is one of the smallest airlines under Civil Aeronautics Board supervision (the terminal points of its network covering the six main islands are only 350 miles apart), Hawaiian Airlines' trolley tactics have made it one of the most consistent moneymakers among U.S. lines. It has been in the black all but one of the last 14 years, and last year earned $186,469 on a gross of $3,353,910. It is also one of the safest lines under CAB, having carried 1,300,000 passengers 200,000,000 miles without a fatality...
...intimating that he needed a political wet nurse, and 3) that the White House secretariat, which considers the National Committee a bunch of grubbing ward heelers, had persuaded the President to dump them. But whatever theory was correct, Republicans were surer than ever that the Democratic Party was falling apart...
...drive, its pride, its success spring from small groups, working toward individual ends, making full use of the city's opportunities. In a purely political sense it has a first citizen-its mayor, whose principal job is to keep the metropolis' delicately adjusted mechanism from flying apart. In the year of its anniversary, New York's mayor happens to be an ex-policeman and ex-bartender, a onetime Army general named William O'Dwyer. According to an old saw, he is a typical New Yorker in that he was not born there...
...latest expression of this natural instinct; he concluded that refusal to use the maximum machinery was not only economically silly but downright unnatural. The machine's chief enemy, he argued, was a moss-backed array of old-fashioned institutions and traditions - and he set out to blow them apart. In his first and most fascinating book, The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), he coldly scrutinized the various ways in which the successful businessman struggled to evade his debt to the very machine which had made him rich...