Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hands of the invader. But last week the familiar crisis routine was not re-enacted. The President, who had long professed to be so occupied with foreign affairs that he had no time for political campaigning, was now so occupied with campaigning that he could spare only a brief interlude for the troubles of Greece. His limousine spirited him from Union Station to the White House. Even the press hardly noticed when Secretary of State Hull and Under Secretary Welles went to him, conferred, departed...
When France fell, the sun set with quiet, dark finality on the Turkish Republic's brief day of greatness. Having oriented herself both economically and strategically toward the Allies, Turkey is now isolated from the one remaining, embattled Ally, while Germany seeks to devour her economically. Her only protector is Russia, to whom she appealed last week...
...train took him north to upstate New York. In Buffalo his reception was tumultuous. Thence he went to Cleveland for the climactic rally of his brief campaign. For the first time he sounded angry and very earnest, as if suddenly aware that it was all too possible for him to be defeated...
...brief, the new charter provides for a nine-man city council, chosen on a city-wide basis by proportional representation. The council selects a city manager, who is responsible to it and a mayor who presides at council meetings and is ceremonial head of the government...
...hundred fifty-two years ago America elected its first President. But many years before that, in 1638, Harvard College acquired its first chief executive. Smooth-spoken, well-dressed Nathaniel Eaton, at the age of 27, served for a brief term as Harvard's first President, treasurer, secretary, dean, bursar, professor, tutor, and steward. This amazing yersatility, however, extended even beyond the scholastic realin: thief, bigamist, forger, and con-man, Eaton was not only a scholar of note but a knave of high distinction...