Word: came
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Wayne Taylor handed out a few bruises on his own account, in a 227-page report of a joint EGA-Department of Commerce mission. After spending ten weeks in Europe, studying methods of increasing European exports to the U.S., Taylor's committee came to one hardheaded conclusion: the U.S. must increase its European imports by $2 billion a year or its own exports will wither away and European living conditions will :all to a dangerous level. Unless this is done, he said in effect, much of the good accomplished by EGA (expenditures more han $7 billion...
...Richard K. Sutherland, Arthur's wartime chief of staff (since retired). Admitting that Sutherland was "smart," Kenney also says that "an unfortunate bit of arrogance, combined with his egotism, had made him almost universally disliked . . . Sutherland was inclined to overemphasize his smattering of knowledge of aviation." The showdown came during the very first week, when Sutherland tried to write the orders for Kenney's first big show. Writes Kenney: "I told him that I was running the Air Force because I was the most competent airman in the Pacific and that, if that statement was not true...
Lieut. General George H. Brett (now retired), who, says George Kenney, didn't even know how many planes he had in his command when Kenney came to succeed...
When Lillian Smith was a little girl in the deep South, a new Negro family moved to town. With the family came Janie, its adopted white-skinned child. Janie disturbed white folks. "They must have kidnaped her," said one of the ladies in Mrs. Smith's club...
...made the traditional claim of the coach whose team had won a hard close game, that there were no stars, just a team. He praised downfield blocking, always a good sign of team play, and cited the fact that the last winning score came on fourth down, after a penalty had almost halted the drive...