Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy assignment would be 62-year-old Frank Matthews' first big public job. After developing a good law practice in Omaha, he had branched out into business, become head of two loan companies, vice president of a radio-TV station, a director of other corporations. A devout Roman Catholic (he had a chapel built in his home so that priests could say Mass there), he was once supreme knight of the Knights of Columbus. In 1944 Pope Pius XII made him a Papal Chamberlain with Cape and Sword, a post entitling him to serve a turn of duty...
...which must pump its lifeblood of traffic through overtaxed and distended arteries, reacted like a great organism with a crippling blood clot. As the tunnel's twin tubes were closed, streams of traffic stagnated and honked around its approaches. Electrical cables in the tunnel burned through and the big city's communications began to fail-some radio programs were cut off, Teletypes stopped, 50% of New York's south-and westbound long-distance circuits were knocked...
...Big Four picked a pink palace for the momentous Foreign Ministers Conference which convenes in Paris next week. Known as the Palais Rose, it belongs to the Duchess de Talleyrand-Périgord, formerly Countess de Castellane, formerly Anna Gould. Furniture movers, electricians and telephone men were hard at work to get everything ready. No less hard at work were the Foreign Ministers' advance guard-U.S. Ambassador-at-Large Philip Jessup, Britain's Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick, France's Alexandre Parodi-in an attempt to "harmonize" their nations' views on what ought to be the West...
...train chugged through Potsdam, past the tall pine trees that shade the Soviet Headquarters. When I sat down in Heinz Depper's compartment, he was looking at a big Red banner strung across a main street. The sign said: "Vote 'Ja' for democracy." It was part of a propaganda campaign for the Communist People's Congress "elections" this week...
...great Mediterranean base for communism. The obedient satellites on Greece's north provided arms and other material aid, sanctuary for hard-pressed guerrillas, hospitals, training bases. Whether they fought voluntarily or under duress, the guerrilla soldiers were Greeks. For Russia it was a cheap try for big stakes. In March 1946, the guerrillas had only 2,500 soldiers. Two years later they had upwards...