Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next he took on "appeasers and. compromisers" in a brief blast at Isolationists, whether Democratic or Republican, in a message to the Young Democrats convention in Louisville...
...denomination's last moderator has his way. Wrote Dr. William Lindsay Young last week in the Presbyterian Tribune: "The Presbyterian Church . . . feels leaderless . . . because of our organizational scheme. The moderator is not an official spokesman. His office is looked upon as purely honorary, lasting for but a brief period of time, and ... by the time he is experienced enough to be of value, his term of office is over...
...President's uncle, liberal, aging Frederic Delano, is chairman. The man picked to boss the job was greying, unassuming Luther Gulick, Republican, friend and adviser of the Rockefellers, a Columbia University professor of government. Assistants were almost all top-flight economists. They went to work. Last week their brief report, written and rewritten before the President finally scribbled "F. D. R." on it, was released...
...morning came the Pope's blessing on this agnostic ex-Socialist father and a brief service for the son. Then the coffin, buried pro tempore under wreaths, was taken off to be buried under the soil of Predappio, on one of the little Romagna hillsides where the Mussolinis, the makers of muslin, had always lived. But before he left Pisa, Benito Mussolini went to talk with the five injured survivors. One unwittingly asked how Bruno...
Midway's commissioning was a reminder to the U.S. public that the Navy has worked fast & furiously at its bases be yond Hawaii since it got the wherewithal from a grudging Congress. Next week there will be a brief pause in the clatter of work on two other outposts - Johnston and Palmyra Islands. The ceremony will be repeated again and two of the Navy's flying lieutenants will take over as C.O.s...