Word: arizona
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When he lunched at the Pearl Harbor Officers' Club-after a cruise in a picket boat past the rusting hulks of the battleship Arizona* and the target ship Utah-he spoke with great seriousness of his hope for world peace. At the Army's Tripler General Hospital, where he made a surprise visit to men wounded in the Korean war, his usual geniality returned. He joked with a soldier who had lost an eye: Well, the President said, you can be a banker and use your glass eye to show sympathy to people who want loans...
...Arizona. A letter to the President signed by the heads of the two Hopi Indian clans from Old Oraibi Indian village asked release of all Hopis in uniform, on grounds that the Hopis wanted only to live a peaceful life their own way and had never made any treaty of alliance with the U.S. anyway. Roman Hubbell, Indian trader and expert on Hopi habits, sensed a Union Square tone to the letter, and thought that a Communist might have put them...
...effective as the number of votes they can deliver . . . Labor's lobby is today the most effective in the capital." Politicians will sometimes "go along with policies they don't believe in personally for votes, but almost never for any other kind of gain." George thought Arizona's ex-Senator Henry Ashurst, one of Congress' greatest orators, summed it up. After making an impressive fight for a cause he sincerely believed in, Ashurst abruptly switched. Said a colleague: "Thank God, Henry, you have seen the light." Said Ashurst: "Oh, no ... I felt the heat." Says George...
...Arizona-born Lew Douglas had brought more than the usual diplomatic attributes to his job. When he took the post 3½-years ago at the prayerful request of George Marshall, he already had behind him a solid and varied career. He had been a Congressman, an industrialist, Director of the Budget (he quit because he disagreed with Roosevelt's ideas of New Dealing spending), the head of McGill University, Lend-Lease expediter, war shipping administrator and the president of the Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York. He arrived in London at a time when the British loan...
Great Spirit. One Indian finding was negative, and damaging to a colorful legend-that the meteor crater near Canyon Diablo in Arizona was feared and shunned superstitiously by the Indians. Legend has it that the crater was regarded as the place where the Great Spirit appeared as a huge ball of fire and plunged into the earth. This story, according to Professor Lincoln La Paz, meteor expert of the University of New Mexico, even penetrated scientific writings and was used as "proof" that the meteor fell at a date when the region had human inhabitants to witness its fall...