Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gamble turned out well. By next evening the results were in. The icing condition had not developed. Instead of 200 planes, 41 had been lost. Four of the six targets had been smashed, the other two severely damaged. From that night on, Tooey kept them flying. In the comparatively brief time this super-power bombing had to work, it forced the Luftwaffe to become an in-&-out air force, fighting hard one day but refusing battle the next...
Eleanor Roosevelt described the goal in a brief My Day reference: "We are going to keep him away from work for certain periods of time, no matter how unpopular we are." Wife & daughter want to guard the strength Franklin Roosevelt regained in his rest at Bernard Baruch's Hobcaw Barony. Now that the President has abandoned his luncheons with politicians, generals, admirals, diplomats and visiting firemen, Anna Boettiger frequently lunches with him, and the conversation is deliberately kept light...
...spoke his forebodings about U.S. foreign policy. Said Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish, addressing the National Institute of Arts and Letters in New York City: "The peace we seem to be making will be a peace of oil, a peace of gold, a peace of shipping-a peace, in brief, of factual situations, a peace without moral purpose or human intent, a peace of dicker and trade about the facts of commerce, the facts of banking, the facts of transportation, which will lead us where the treaties made by dicker and trade have always...
...subject of the Montgomery Ward seizure (TIME, May 8), the President replied that he knew someone would ask that question, someone looking for trouble. Meekly, Earl Godwin demurred that he was not looking for anything of the kind. But the President was prepared: in his hands he held a brief, typewritten history of the Montgomery Ward battle...
Hans Pete Mortensen and wife Lorraine operate a brothel called the Nifty Rooms lodging house, in Grand Island, Neb. (pop. 19,130). The Mortensens considerately took two of their girls to Salt Lake City for a brief vacation. The girls relaxed, had an innocent good time, returned refreshed to their work in Grand Island. But the Government convicted the Mortensens of violating the Mann...