Word: awaying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What Is Loyalty? Harry Truman tossed away the new loyalty test the very next morning at his press conference. What was needed, said Harry Truman, was a definition of a Democrat. Democrats, he went on, are those people who support the Democratic platform, which is the law of the Democratic Party. Would he consider votes on Taft-Hartley repeal a test of a true Democrat? He certainly would, replied the President...
...Before the outbursts had subsided, Johnson plunged head first into more trouble. Johnson, who just can't seem to stay away from the press, or be discreet in front of it, let it be known that he had decided on the successor to retiring Army Secretary Kenneth Royall -though it is the President's prerogative to name his own official family. Johnson's choice was 58-year-old Curtis Ernest Calder, the $75,000-a-year board chairman of Manhattan's Electric Bond and Share Co. As soon as Calder could tidy up his affairs, probably...
Abject Surrender. By this time Louis Johnson had also thrust his bald skull into another angry beehive. At a friendly little luncheon for a handful of Washington newsmen, he incautiously confirmed some of John Sullivan's worst fears. The newsmen came away with the distinct impression that Johnson was intending to absorb all of Marine Corps aviation into the Air Force or the Navy or both, and that a directive to that effect was already in the works...
Yourself: I was only going to say that though I was never in Vladivostok, I did spend some months in Munster Lager, not a million miles away ... Of course, I was working as a stevedore among the dockers and porters-I didn't see much of the higher-ups I'm afraid. But Lord, I feel I understood the people-the cutters and the quay cleaners, the dossmen...
Henry D. Aiken, associate professor of Philosophy, whittled away at the various ways the U.S. and Russia might prevent war, and decided that the only feasible solution was through a mutual fear of its results. Mutual trust, he concluded, between the two nations is now impossible and can't exist for many years. Aiken then put some small measure of approval on the signing of the Atlantic Pact...