Word: bloodedness
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In 1939 the Government needed a heavyhanded, blue-blooded officer to rope in some of its maverick commanders in China. It chose Prince Higashi-Kuni. He dressed down his notorious relative, Prince Yasuhiko Asaka, who stood by at the rape of Nanking and subsequently at the "Death March" from Bataan...
Red Threat. On the mainland of Far Eastern Asia, another war had begun as the old one was ending. For 16 years, the Russians had kept an army poised along their Siberian frontier facing Manchuria, had blooded it in border clashes with the Japs' well-trained, ill-famed Kwantung...
The 9,000-sq. ft. New City plant was built in the earlier days of the war, when laboratory mice for the processing of tropical-disease serum were desperately scarce in the U.S. Government joined forces with industrv-which in this case turned out to be professional mouse breeders Frederic...
The little Army mail plane squealed to a stop on Rio's airport. Out stepped a half-naked Indian. He was Chief Inai Cachirere of Matto Grosso's Javaes Indians. In broken Portuguese he demanded an audience with General Candido Rondon, 80, begetter of Brazil's enlightened...
The President had also found strength and counsel in other Roosevelt holdovers. Speechwriter Sam Rosenman had been persuaded to stay, at least for another year. Owlish Judge Vinson, the Economic Stabilizer, was now top adviser on domestic affairs. Jimmy Byrnes, working on a special project at his Spartanburg (S.C.) home...