Word: brooks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...broke out in a rash of red-white-&-blue bunting. While 10,000 enthusiasts besieged the Secretariat for tickets to the great International Floor Show (only 30 visitors would be admitted the first day), Tarrytown's Fire Department, the Girls' Friendly Society, the Kiwanis Club of Bound Brook (N.J.) and Manhattan's sleek Bryn Mawr and Vassar Clubs all planned bus trips to Flushing Meadow...
...More Bumping. Lord Beaver-brook's London Daily Express ran the most fascinating story of the gruesome week. One refugee, it reported, "was trailed by the feet down the 30-ft. gangway, his head bumping as he went. This caused a group of American Jewish correspondents to hurl themselves against the wire netting around the press enclosure shouting protests. They were rebuked by a correspondent from the United Press, who told them: 'Remember you are here as reporters, not as sympathizers or propagandists...
...Marshall himself paid a 30-minute visit to Lake Success, shook hands all around, signed an agreement on U.N. rights & privileges at its future site in Manhattan. In New York City, Mayor William O'Dwyer called on the citizens to join in prayer for U.N. In the Bound Brook, NJ. area, 7,856 people signed a scroll declaring their support of the Charter...
George Catiett Marshall, Secretary of State and former Chief of Staff of the United States Army. Doctor of Laws. Citation: "An American to whom Freedom owes an enduring debt of gratitude, a soldier and statesman whose ability and character brook only one comparison in the history of this nation...
Like Tennyson's Brook, a Persian election goes on forever, and sees, in its course, a varied scene. In April 1946, Prime Minister Ahmad Gavam first promised to hold an immediate election for the Majlis (Parliament) to ratify the Russian oil concession he had just signed in Moscow. The Russians were then posed menacingly in Azerbaijan. In December 1946, when the Russians abandoned the Azerbaijani Democrats, the election finally "started" with much fanfare. Distribution of registration forms began-by plane, truck and camel back. A TIME correspondent asked Gavam when it would be completed. Fingering his jade conversation beads...