Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sealed brief case Joe Davies brought back a sealed letter from Joseph Stalin to Franklin Roosevelt. The contents, known only to the principals, were certainly historic, perhaps were history-making in the profoundest international sense...
...Swell Job, Mr. Smith." Even this brief sampling makes apparent one reason Mr. Smith and his Bureau rarely get into the papers. Most of their jobs are the unspectacular, long-range, beneficial sort which do not make news. For the Government as a whole is run a great deal better than the citizenry knows. Mistakes, hard names, quarrels make more headlines than peaceful progress. Any Congressman could make the front pages any day by standing up and calling Harold Smith a waster and a no-good. But when, at the end of his Appropriations Committee testimony, Alabama...
...line of duty. The President doesn't actually wince when Budgeteer Smith enters, but he well might. For the President loves good news and Harold Smith almost never brings any. Every other Administration visitor can occasionally pop in with cheerful tidings. But not Harold Smith: he brings a brief case of woe, problems, figures, trouble, which he and the President must face up to forthwith...
British cinemas last week showed Winston Churchill's recent meeting with Franklin Roosevelt. The same newsreel included a brief shot of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor arriving in Washington during Churchill's visit. British audiences were attentive to Churchill and Roosevelt, but made no demonstration. When the Windsors appeared, houses echoed with applause and cheers...
Said practically religious Chiang: "Let the Church identify itself more intimately with the life and needs of the people . . . and build a heaven in society." To that end the conference, taking a brief look back at its achievements in Free China (100 hospitals, eleven universities, etc.), decided to raise the educational requirements for native pastors, also recommended that henceforth missionaries from abroad shall be sent to China only on invitation of the churches there...