Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...information about Miss Willson is an anonymous 19th-Century letter writer. Wrote he: "These two maids left their home in the East with a romantic attachment for each other and which continued until the death of the 'farmer maid.' The artist was inconsolable, and after a brief time, removed to parts unknown...
Basis for Hope. The policy sounds elementary. In brief, it assumes that the national welfare demands: 1) that the Government concern itself with insuring ample oil supplies for the U.S., 2) that the Government concern itself with the good of its corporate nationals abroad, but 3) that corporations in search of profits must bear in mind the good of foreign nations, in line with U.S. policy in search of peace. In other words, it is a proper concern of Government, at the diplomatic level, to be active in foreign oil as the impartial guardian of both foreign and domestic interests...
...rest of the band is made up of Johnny Windhurst, the sensational 17-year-old cornetist from New York who has moved to South Weymouth after a brief visit to Boston earlier this winter (an example of how a sincere mutual interest can draw people together in nothing flat), Evan Schwarz on piano, and George Ohlson on drums...
...before the break, 90 officers of the GOU (Gobierno, Orden, Unidad), the Army clique which has bossed the Government of President Ramirez, were called to a meeting in the Municipal Building. Foreign Minister Alberto Gilbert, hitherto no friend of the U.S., but no fool either, made a brief and urgent speech. The officers listened in frigid silence. Then Gilbert left for the Foreign Office, where he moaned: "I am in the battle of my life...
Soldiers' frayed battle-nerves are the subject of much concern among service doctors and the people at home. Last week, before the Brief Psychotherapy Council in Chicago, Lieut. Colonel Roy Richard Grinker gave his candid opinion of the psychiatric methods now used to get war-sick soldiers back into battle...