Word: brightness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps one reason why so many people are dubious about the political wisdom of the U.W.F. is that the group only got going a short time ago. All of a sudden, it seemed, there were scores of bright young men telling everybody to hurry up and produce a world government before it was too late. Early world federalism smacked of wild-eyed student debaters fussing over the Culbertson method. And, in the beginning, at least, there were so many world government groups that the average citizen was slightly confused...
...question of China, however, gave the new Secretary a chill and a high temperature. Fifty-one Republican Congressmen had written to President Truman, demanding clear answers to specific questions on current U.S. policy towards China. His bright yellow dispatch case bulging with documents, Secretary Acheson took his weary bones up to Capitol Hill for a closed session with the Republicans. When it was over, the Secretary, like Cardinal Wolsey, needed a little earth for charity. Minnesota's tireless Walter H. Judd, onetime China medical missionary, who believes that the U.S. could still save China from the Reds...
...Bright Sweater. Cheke's pamphlet turns around the ordeals of Mr. John Bull, the Third Secretary to Sir Henry Sealingwax, ambassador to mythical Mauretania. To the old ambassadors John Bull is typical of Britain's new crop of appointees now at their first posts abroad. Long on economics, finance and social problems, often with brilliant war records, they are, by such standards as Cheke's, still social roughnecks...
Grooming John Bull for his first day in Mauretania, Cheke warns him to expect callers and adds, "the president of the Chamber of Commerce . . . would resent being received by a young man wearing ... a bright green pullover." And Third Secretary Bull had best adjust to being familiarly called "John" by embassy colleagues; "after a day or two ... he may return this vulgar compliment...
...First Lady of their race. She was born of former slaves in South Carolina, walked five miles a day to school. Years later, she founded a school of her own, finally became president of coeducational Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona Beach, Fla. At 73, she is a dumpy, bright-eyed lady with a penchant for floppy hats and an unquenchably quiet determination to better the lot of her race. "I like Mary Bethune," Franklin D. Roosevelt once remarked. "She has kept her feet on the ground-and they are definitely planted in plowed soil...