Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Advocate & Executor. But he remained loyal to Roosevelt. Acheson was one of the torchbearers in the 1940 campaign to put U.S. aid squarely behind Britain and France. He and three lawyer colleagues had written and made public a lawyer's brief supporting Roosevelt's right to swap the 50 U.S. destroyers for British bases in the Western Hemisphere. At the urging of Cordell Hull, Roosevelt invited Acheson back into his family as Assistant Secretary of State. Acheson gave up his law practice to take the $9,000-a-year...
...while he was hiding out from the Germans during the occupation. In the end he began to feel that he was divinely inspired to do something about it. Groskamp first appealed to the World Council of Churches meeting in Amsterdam last summer; then he lodged his carefully drawn legal brief with the Supreme Court of Israel...
...third period the prop schoolers went through a brief spasm of scoring, narrowed their deficit for four minutes, and then relapsed into ineffectiveness. Their only consolation was that Fritz Etelman scored 16 points and seven of their 11 field goals...
Making the most of its brief freedom (controls will be clamped on again after the election), the opposition newspaper Republica addressed the dictator thus: "Senhor Salazar, the world will not tolerate the direction in which you are walking against the will of the nation. You govern by force and you call it right. You are the only free man in Portugal...
...Truman found time for a list of visitors ranging from ten Blue Star Mothers to Roman Catholic Archbishop Yu-pin of Nanking. A delegation from the American Radio Relay League dropped by, another from the National Association of Postmasters. The President gave a group of Colgate University students a brief lecture on honesty in politics, and then handed each of them a pen which said, "I swiped this from Harry S. Truman...