Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Looking around wildly for some way to save money with a minimum of local political pain, the House Appropriations Committee last week seized on a favorite target: foreign aid. Last week it whacked the European recovery appropriation down $629 million to $4.6 billion, and sliced $150 million out of the $1 billion appropriation for U.S.-occupied areas. Promptly, the alarms sounded...
...news, but not out of action. And he was careful to keep in touch with his fellow Legionnaire, Harry Truman. Last fall, when Truman looked around for a man to raise money for his campaign, his eye fell on Louis Johnson...
Edwin W. Pauley, California oilman and grain speculator, treasurer of the party (1942-45), whom Truman once nominated for Under Secretary of the Navy, an appointment he had to withdraw because of senatorial opposition. Pauley raised a lot of West Coast oil money. Seldom seen around the White House any more, he keeps in touch by long-distance telephone...
...hotels and clubs in Washington. Bunche had gotten his fill of Washington before (as a specialist in OSS and in a State Department desk job). While other officials of his rank lived in the more convenient Northwest section of the city, he built a home in the Southeast quarter. Around the corner from him was a public school, but it was for white children; Bunche had to send his two daughters to a Negro school nearly three miles away. There were other complications. Item: last March the fashionable Wardman Park Hotel refused a meeting room to the Middle East Institute...
...Fight, Push. While a Nationalist spokesman was shouting words of defiance, something else was happening around Shanghai's defense perimeter. From his vantage point on the twelfth floor of the massive Picardie Apartments in Shanghai's old French concession, an American looked south over Lunghua airport. Later he described what he saw: "There were sharp bursts of machine-gun fire from the south. Then, within minutes, every road into the city was clogged with retreating Nationalist soldiers and civilians. Soldiers who were walking yanked civilians from their bicycles and pedicabs. The soldiers ran and fought and pushed...