Word: armes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the President also: ¶ Sent to Congress the draft of a bill permitting the U.S. to train & arm her sister republics of the Western Hemisphere, a step long urged by the War & Navy departments, vigorously opposed by some factions of the State Department...
...takes me from four to six hours a day." Actually, there is little room for doubt that Billy writes the prose that bears his byline. The column talks like Billy, it mawks like Billy, it has all of Billy's change-rattling eloquence and off-the-arm skill with a gag. Besides, he is far too shrewd to be caught in a whopping...
Today the most promising national organization strictly for collegiates concerned with influencing political issues is Students for Democratic Action, junior arm of Wilson Wyatt's Americans for Democratic Action. Even in its present state of acute growing pains it may represent with its alleged 5,000 membership in 75 chapters the advent of a new force which can effectively correlate the scattered social consciences of the political animals. Past patterns demand revision; for the so-called "student movement" of the last decade sported labyrinthine politics at once harlequinade and sorry spectacle. From 1935 to 1939 the American Student Union held...
WASHINGTON, May 26--President Truman today asked Congress for authority to arm, equip, and train the armed forces of western hemisphere nations, including Canada. In a special message, he told the legislators that "world developments" have made such action "more important" than when he asked similar legislation a year...
Ordered: two U.S. elevators; by King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia; for his guestpalace in Jidda. Specifications: deep carpeting, satin-upholstered armchairs (in green & gold) with white satin arm rests. The King expects a visit from Egypt's Farouk...