Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Canada had led me to make" an investment in 1929 in a Canadian company. In effect, he had found a way to postpone tax payments. That same year (1929), said Forrestal, he had paid upwards of $300,000 in federal and New York State taxes. It was his behavior as a friendly witness in the Senate hearing which prompted Roosevelt to ask him to serve as one of his assistants. When Forrestal left Dillon Read to go into government, he sold all his interests in the firm...
...been sincerely converted to a get-tough policy toward Russia. It was he who helped inspire, draft and put over the Greek-Turkish aid program. Before a Senate committee, Acheson charged: "Russian foreign policy is an aggressive and expanding one." Molotov protested that it was "gross slander ... inadmissible behavior . . . hostile," and was slapped down by George Marshall...
...pain from Germans of all political shades. In Diisseldorf, Britain's military governor General Sir Brian Robertson slapped them down: "Stop complaining. Be thankful for what you have got. The Germans must understand that Germany's record has caused other countries to be nervous about her behavior in the future." The sanest German opinion was well expressed by a Berlin businessman: "Of course the politicians must cry out in anger-that is part of their professional duty. But we need a year before we can really tell how this will work...
...stationed in New Mexico, these mobile observatories are the first to be used for photographic research on the behavior of meteors. Precision astronomical data obtained by the expedition yielded new information on atmospheric densities and temperatures, confirming some theories and finding others inaccurate...
...when the North American Review published extracts of The Diary of a Public Man, the book immediately became an important historical source. It purported to be a diary kept during the winter of 1860-61, in Washington. The story of Douglas' behavior at Lincoln's inaugural (Lincoln had no place to lay his hat, fidgeted with it, until Douglas stepped forward and took it from him) is one of the many familiar stories that come from this famous diary. James Ford Rhodes, Carl Sandburg, Ida Tarbell and other Lincoln biographers accepted the book as genuine ; only the biographer...