Word: backed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...admires most, George C. Marshall, at a dinner on the second anniversary of the Harvard speech which launched the Marshall Plan. Marshall would be remembered more as a great peacemaker than as a great soldier, Truman predicted."I believe that in the years to come we shall look back on this undertaking [the Marshall Plan] as the dividing line . . . between the old era of national suspicion, economic hostility and isolationism, and the new era of mutual cooperation to increase prosperity throughout the world." ¶Appointed Mrs. Georgia Neese Clark, 49, Democratic National Committeewoman from Kansas, as Treasurer of the United...
...pleasant, the nights were still cool, and U.S. citizens began to think happily of summer vacations in the mountains, on the shore, or pounding along the nation's sun-shimmering highways. For a change, there was hope in the international air, too. In the smiling rose garden back of the White House, Harry Truman spoke to a group of war correspondents who were off to revisit the wreckage-strewn Normandy beaches on the fifth anniversary of Dday...
Harry Truman could look out over the formal rose gardens, edged with boxwood. And as he walked back to Blair House at day's end, he could also see, glowing pink and salmon under the ancient elms, the round beds of impatiens, which people also know as the patience plant...
...quiet was broken by excited babble from the spectators. Chambers did not seem to hear. He stared without expression at gaunt, handsome Alger Hiss and his decorous, greying wife, Priscilla. He seated himself in the witness chair, took the oath, fixed his eyes on the ceiling toward the back of the room and, in a low, even voice, began his long story...
...Defense Attorney Stryker leaped out of his chair at the moment the prosecutor sat down and advanced on the witness like a man about to kill a wild beast with his hands. Within minutes, Chambers had coolly admitted taking "a false and perjurous" oath in getting a Government job back in 1937. From then on, hour after hour, Stryker labored hard to wreck the witness' credibility...